This share-the-pain interpretation of "equality," which people use to justify expanding the Selective Service system to women, is common, but fundamentally perverse. When assessing unequal treatment under the law based on immutable characteristics, a first-order sorting question should be: Is this a government-imposed legal inequality of *opportunity,* or of burden?
A reading of "Women Are on the Verge of Being Forced Into Military Conscription Due to a Perverse Notion of 'Equality,'" originally published at Reason.