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by jfengel 96 days ago
We should indeed make conscription equal. In the US, that means eliminating it. We have no use for conscripted soldiers.

Or we could make women sign up for the Selective Service. That would be a small waste of time for both men and women, since a draft is a bad idea. But if we can't eliminate it, making it equal would be fine with me.

Reading between the lines, your comment sounds a bit like "because of the draft men have no bodily autonomy and therefore women shouldn't have it either". I don't think that reasoning holds, but nonetheless, I agree that the draft should be made either universal or nonexistent.

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> Reading between the lines, your comment sounds a bit like "because of the draft men have no bodily autonomy and therefore women shouldn't have it either".

More like hallucinating between the lines, since they didn’t say or imply anything like that.

It is a sentiment I have heard before, so I made the inference. If that is not their intention, then there is no problem.