Yep, it does put those objections in perspective. There certainly is a theoretical possibility that women who become POWs will be raped, there may be a case or two of this happening.
However, if this is a real concern of folks, they should look at the huge numbers of women who are being sexually assaulted by their fellow soldiers first. This is a real problem, not a hypothetical one, and should take precedence in the order of stuff to be fixed.
That would have something to do with a) we haven't had that many POW's in recent conflicts, and b) we've had a ban on women serving in combat. What's being talked about here is the future.
The only other possibility is that you're saying since we didn't have many pow's recently, we won't have many in the future either. I missed that possibility, as it's a completely unfounded assumption. We haven't been in major combat war since Viet Nam. It would be nice if we never were again, but I see no reason to assume that we won't. But for now we can have women in combat positions, placing equality above all else. And other countries are doing the same. Then when a real combat war breaks out, and women prisoners get raped and killed by the boatload, we'll see if things change.
Do you somehow think that's not true?
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However, if this is a real concern of folks, they should look at the huge numbers of women who are being sexually assaulted by their fellow soldiers first. This is a real problem, not a hypothetical one, and should take precedence in the order of stuff to be fixed.
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And it's a bit easier to keep things from being changed than to change things.
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