Why is it that during war or any sort of disaster...sinking ship, floods, hijaking etc etc etc.
You always hear...let the women and children go first? why is it..
I am not looking at it from a chauvanistic point of view, but simply from a logical point.
the logic behind this is/was that men are physically stronger and thus let the kids and women go first...
But isn't there a flip side to this logic as well? what if the women and children did make it and the men perished...What place and opportunities did society have for widows and orphans? what did they wind up as?
So was that not thus counter productive? It is said that in wars case its men's doing so they kep innocent people e.g. women and kids out of harm's way.
But from a total logical point of view..taking emotions (and compassion) out of the equation...was women and children first approach...the right one..
and thus I have opened a pandoras box :>
You always hear...let the women and children go first? why is it..
I am not looking at it from a chauvanistic point of view, but simply from a logical point.
the logic behind this is/was that men are physically stronger and thus let the kids and women go first...
But isn't there a flip side to this logic as well? what if the women and children did make it and the men perished...What place and opportunities did society have for widows and orphans? what did they wind up as?
So was that not thus counter productive? It is said that in wars case its men's doing so they kep innocent people e.g. women and kids out of harm's way.
But from a total logical point of view..taking emotions (and compassion) out of the equation...was women and children first approach...the right one..
and thus I have opened a pandoras box :>
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