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<blockquote data-quote="tieguy" data-source="post: 792335" data-attributes="member: 1912"><p><span style="color: #0000ff">All the more reason to not discuss sexual orientation. I'm not sure the young people are as receptive to the concept as we think. In a civilian world most of us will support a gay persons right to hold a job and avoid discriminatory practices. When a person is however making a decision as to who they are going to fight and possibly die next to the process can become much more selective. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Should I be allowed to choose to make the ultimate sacrifice fighting next to someone of similar beliefs and orientation? And if you decide to force me to fight next to a gay person will I fight as hard to save his ass as I would a heterosexual? There are legitimate reasons why those old out of touch generals believe knowing someone is gay may seriously affect the cohesiveness of the fighting unit. </span></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">Fighting and winning a battle is about a group of individuals learning to put aside differences to fight as a team. We can force people to fight on the same team but we can not always force them to fight for each other. Sometimes its better to know less about our team members in order to maintain that teamwork.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tieguy, post: 792335, member: 1912"] [COLOR=#0000ff]All the more reason to not discuss sexual orientation. I'm not sure the young people are as receptive to the concept as we think. In a civilian world most of us will support a gay persons right to hold a job and avoid discriminatory practices. When a person is however making a decision as to who they are going to fight and possibly die next to the process can become much more selective. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Should I be allowed to choose to make the ultimate sacrifice fighting next to someone of similar beliefs and orientation? And if you decide to force me to fight next to a gay person will I fight as hard to save his ass as I would a heterosexual? There are legitimate reasons why those old out of touch generals believe knowing someone is gay may seriously affect the cohesiveness of the fighting unit. [/COLOR] [COLOR=#0000ff]Fighting and winning a battle is about a group of individuals learning to put aside differences to fight as a team. We can force people to fight on the same team but we can not always force them to fight for each other. Sometimes its better to know less about our team members in order to maintain that teamwork.[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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