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Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
Tue May 28, 2013, 09:59 PM May 2013

Men as Slaves in War [View all]

Who could disagree that it is horrible to use women as sex slaves in war? Of course it is. But rape has been a part of war since the dawn of civilization, so trying to reduce the amount of rape -or eliminate it- by creating a sex industry to service soldiers.... Hmmm... still wrong, of course.

But if there is one thing missing from this whole conversation spurred by the recent comments of Hashimoto, the mayor of Osaka, it is this:

Men were forced by the millions to murder and die. Yes, they were slaves who were ordered to commit the greatest sin -the murder of another human and to give up their own lives and leave their families.

Let me say that again. Men have been forced to become murdering slaves by the MILLIONS. Forced prostitution is surely evil, but are we not missing something by not addressing the evil of taking millions of men as slaves to kill and/or be killed?

Yeah, slaves.

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