Just like you can't be against forced pregnancy without being against pregnancy in general?
That's part of definition of war, comrade. Armed conflict, leading in death.
Actually there have been bloodless wars in the past, in fact on of the definitions of war is: a state of competition, conflict, or hostility between different people or groups.
So trade wars, information wars, price wars, etc..
This is not the traditional definition of war, but okay. I don't see how it changes the point.
Hirota wrote:I too can link to wikipedia[/url] and pretend you've not ignored large parts of the article you quoted.
Yes I'm aware conscription existed before then, thanks. Do you have an actual point? Perhaps you're trying to suggest that the quoted portion of the article is incorrect? If so, I'd like to know why.
This principle of male disposibility doesn't apply to war exclusively. Deaths in the workplace are almost exclusively male.
I find it ironic that masculist (if you're not an MRA, that leaves masculist, who tend to be better, am I correct?) opponents of the wage gap point to female career choices as evidence of non-discrimination (Setting aside whether it exists, which to be honest I'm neutral on, this ignores the fact that the chosen careers being lower paying is largely cultural in causes
and that women disportionately choose different careers because of culture...Culture isn't something that's above criticism) but shift their arguments in career choices for men as a cultural evil leading to their deaths.
There's not even a conscription argument to be made here, as career choices are voluntary.
I'm not really sure what exactly the suggested solution to dangerous careers is supposed to be. Promote gender equality in dangerous careers? Why would women dying too be good? And any rate, some feminists are already promoting this. Perhaps the suggestion is some form of radical labor reform that makes things safer.
At any rate, if career choices indicates the disposability of men, then it also indicates the disposability of the working class as this happens solely to workers, but if that's the case then the latter undermines the former as you cannot separate the two.