Why Do Women Disapprove of Drone Strikes So Much More Than Men Do?

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7. Interesting question

To which I might offer some thoughts that came up in Anthropology class discussions...

Women have a lot invested in their role as the ones who carry the weight of giving birth while men have little invested (also a possible reason for the dead-beat dad syndrome). This is not an attempt to denigrate the involvement of men in this process but women carry that child internally for nearly a year during gestation, for men - biologically- it's a few minutes and a physical release and it's a done deal. And afterward in most cultures the female component of this mating, if you will, also carry the burden of responsibility of the health and well being of the offspring and contribution to their assimilation into the culture.

Because of this cost of being the ones who give birth and, in most cultures, also carry the burden of raising the children they give birth to (and often those whom they did not bear but care for all the same) which requires compassion and concern for health and well-being... a sense of the costs of death, dismemberment and the caring for the wounded and the grieving.

Women have an innate sense of the value of life (yes there are women who do not but they are few in comparison to those who do and compared to the male population).

How many women can you count throughout history who have been responsible for declarations of war and execution of the war(s)? And compare that to men.