>>>> So it's okay to give people who will never be forced to step onto a battlefield and die the power to decide who to fight and when to do it?

> Advocating for military dictatorship is quite different.

It sounds like they're arguing more for something like a military oligarchy a la Starship Troopers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers#Setting), which is somewhat different but still not good.

I don't know about starship troppers. I'm just saying it's not at all fair when 50% of the population can elect leaders who have the power to order the other 50% to die on their behalf. That is the current situation with men and women in the vast majority of countries today, including mine: men and women can vote but only men are conscripted into military service.

> I'm just saying it's not at all fair when 50% of the population can elect leaders who have the power to order the other 50% to die on their behalf.

They wouldn't be ordered to die, they'd be ordered to fight.