“For example, a nation that will send mothers of young children into ground infantry combat operations, when the survival of the nation is not under such dire threat as to objectively require such sacrifices, DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE DEFENDED.”
WOW!? Equal rights. Volunteer military.
Spoken like a true liberal. Despite all pretensions to the contrary, mothers and fathers are not interchangeable in the role of nurturing and in the social development of very young children. Even trained sociologists acknowledge this fact, which the experience of human civilization has taught us.
There is not, in my world, an unrestricted right to indulge in socio-pathological activities. No benefit to our nation that cannot otherwise readily be availed is obtained by making warriors of the mothers of young children.