Should women be eligible for the draft?

[Antonio the Sixth]

Option 3 (normal)

^^^^

But if there is to be a draft, then option 1 (normal).

[Antonio the Sixth]

3 is my vote, but yes, of course.  To not do so would be sexist.

I don't get this line of reasoning. Why does violating a group's civil liberties mean we have to violate another group's civil liberties for fairness' sake? It's like finding out that black people couldn't vote in South Africa, and deciding that white people shouldn't be allowed to vote either because to do otherwise would be racist.

It makes perfect sense for someone who values equality as a positive good in and of itself, and not only as a mere corollary of liberty.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Those who do serve should be held to the same standards as men.

I'm glad you think so, considering that in most of the occupations traditionally considered as "manly", women tend to be held to a higher standard than men, since they are presumed incompetent by default.

[Antonio the Sixth]

I change my vote to no, because no woman should be drafted into an institution where she can be raped by a commanding officer and her only recourse is to report the rape up the chain of command.

The solution is to change the law and crack down on the rapists and (even more importantly) on the officers who protect them. But if the army remains an overwhelmingly male institution, there's no wonder a particularly vicious rape culture develops.