Comfort Women Blogpost

Comfort women existed in Japan during World War II for soldiers to fulfill their sexual desires. The issue I want to focus on is not whether or not these women were forced into sexual slavery or if they were willing prostitutes who signed up for providing these services to military men. Even if the women were willingly involved in this situation, I still think that there are moral problems with this type of scenario. From an Aristotelean point of view, there is a virtue of love and sex that is gone to a far extreme. I would consider this from a soldier point of view. The soldiers go out to a far extreme of fulfilling their desire for sex during wartime. During war there are many virtues in which military men honor. They abide by courage and pride. Soldiers have a reason to go towards the vice of excess in terms of courage simply because this is the only way that the job will be fulfilled. No soldier lacking any sort of courage would be able to partake in a battle where their life is jeopardized. However, in the case of the virtue of love and sex, I believe that soldiers ought to control the virtue in a moderate way and there is no justifiable reason as to why they should  have to live in excess that they are provided with comfort women. Someone may say that sex allows for less mishaps to occur, but in the case of the comfort women soldiers were only taken to these locations once a month. The fact that they are allowed to stay away from those activities for a month means that they can go beyond that. The vice of excess for the virtue of sex and love would be allow people to have sex with whoever they want simply to fulfill desires. In context with the comfort women situation, a soldier is to blame for going about in excess beyond someone who he has committed to.