With increased responsibility come increased rights?

Question

Fair enough? Do you agree? For example...

A child starts doing chores and helping out around the house more – perhaps they start to be allowed an allowance or a later bedtime.

As the project manager at work, you are only one of a team of five people who work on a project but you’re the one who is held accountable. Should you get paid more?

Men are the only ones whose responsibility it is to register for selective service and the only ones who can be sent into harms way against their will. What rights do you think men should have, that women do not – to properly compensate them for this increased responsibility?

What would you, as a woman, think would be fair for society to give men, as an added right for the added responsibilty he shoulders?

Men? What do you think?

man id unknown: I must respectfully disagree. I can only draw the conclusion that women no longer have the burden of bearing children as I have been repeatedly informed that what they do with their bodies is their choice. Since it is their choice - and since men do not have a choice regarding registration; I cannot in good conscience allow these two to cancel each other out. :)

Unfortunately elite, during times of war, there are often too few volunteers. If for instance, we are hit by a three pronged attack by enemies tired of being referred to as 'axis of evil' countries or something... and we fail to fight back - we will be destroyed, even the women and children. While war is regrettable, it is sometimes a necessary evil. When it comes, soldiers are required.

bookworm: You'll please note that I didn't give my opinion, I asked yours (and others, their opinion). So asking me if "I want..." is really ignoring my question in leiu of one of your own. Why do you feel your questions are more important? To address something you implied though - that my *choosing* to live here negates any claims to added rights or compensation when I am held more responsible that another group of citizens. You are correct that I chose to live here, as do you. The difference is - I must do more to live here than you - by law... in a country that has legislated equality.

Answer 1

In countries outside of the US, women are eligible for the draft. We in the US are behind the times! The US military has all kinds of rules about what women can and can't do (we can't officially see combat, but they think up some other name for it and send women in anyway, for instance) and I think these rules should be abolished. I also think that women should be eligible for the draft, and I would welcome a law that proposed it, even though I personally would hope I wouldn't have to serve! There's no physical reason that women can't serve, really, and when you think about it the Navy would probably love our little frames in a submarine, since men get so tall these days.

Women should be included in drafts, BUT men shouldn't get any extra rights because they are included in them now. Why? Because it's hardly women's faults that we're excluded, but the fault of the male-dominated military, which until very recently didn't want any women, and apparently still wants as few as possible, to serve.

Answer 2

I think you are confusing rights with compensation. As for it being a woman's choice to have a child or not, it is also a choice to live in this country. Do you want compensation? Or do you want more "rights" then women because you choose to live here and this country requires that you register for the draft?
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I was trying to clear up the compensation &/or rights angle of your question, the "you" was meant in the broad sense of the word, not you specifically. Since the draft is archaic, gender biased, and unfair there is no fair reward for the people who are required by law to participate Your original question does not equate- increased responsibility does not equal increased rights (or compensations, since we have not cleared that up yet). It is nice when it does but it is not a forgone conclusion. The obvious answer is to change the draft (woops I feel a question coming on...) But, how do you make the draft fair? Past generations have tried to compensate the survivors of the draft with education, and the dependents of those who did not survive with money probably because most (not all) draftees tend to be less educated or poorer then the ones who some how got around or excluded from the draft. It might help you with your eventual answer to ask those people their feelings and thoughts on being compensated for being affected by the draft. I just have one more point, every living person can be and are put in harms way against their will and it could be argued that it is the poor decisions of others who put innocents in harms way. Women did not decide to create and/or invoke the draft. So you want my opinion here it goes:
1- Your question is based on inaccurate assumptions.
2- The draft is not fair
3- There is no adequete compensation for those who are affected by the draft.
4- Right now there is no draft in affect, the men and women who are serving in our military made that choice, and there are men and women dying for our military. Men should not have more "rights or privledges" because they can be made to serve then the women who have chosen to.

Answer 3

As people, we are all different and have different responsibilities. Women, more often than not, bear the responsibility of raising children. Even when the fathers are in the picture, it is the mother who, again more often than not, care for the children and nurture the children to adulthood.

I believe women have more pressure in the world. From the physical and emotional changes of puberty, through discrimination of all types. How many men know the feeling of being surrounded by men making snide comments and ogling them. How many men know the emotional trauma that results from sexual abuse or rape. We as women have our own inequities to work through, while the men have theirs. I do agree that being drafted at the age 18, and yet not even being legally allowed to drink is proposterous. A man can die for his country at 18 years old, but he cannot legally buy a bottle of wine - definitely not fair....but this is life in the United States- and this life is far from fair.

Good question, that invokes thought. Thank you.

Answer 4

Sir, this is a very interesting point. Of course, women have the burden of bearing children, but this is a duty emposed on them by GOD and nature. Not any government.

However, what suitable reward could be given? Would a reward only diminish the honour and integrity of the duty?

Answer 5

Interesting point. I suggest governments do away with the draft altogether.

Answer 6

The more you do, the more you get.