No one would dispute that a woman can do an excellent job in the Forces as an Air Traffic Controller, a pilot, an infantryperson or a steam-raising Engineer or anything else, but there are limits.
The question is: Is it right that she should be asked to go into close combat with a man who is (iin most cases), bigger, heavier and stronger.
Wrote Oscar Wilde:
"I know not whether laws be right,
Or whether laws be wrong".
I would invoke Kant's Categorical Imperative: (the morality of any action may be judged by its universal application) - in other words, what would happen if everybody did it all the time ?
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