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Originally Posted by rsdengler
The next thing you know people will want to change themselves to become another "species".
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Funny that you should mention such a crazy idea.....
EGO HIPPO: the subject as metaphor
Peer reviewed by our nations academic elite, so it must be a respectable topic with a logical finding.
I still hold military leaders accountable for wherever this ends up. If one of us commits an atrocity, using the excuse that we were "ordered by higher" to carry out an act that we knew to be illegal, immoral, or unethical - the punishment would be swift.
We have been told by our leaders since the day we entered service that we are duty bound to speak truth to power when faced with such orders.
"Moral courage" is what my Drill Sergeant called it.
Unless someone has lied to me, CGSC Department of Command and Leadership (DCL) is supposed to develop officers that have the courage to speak “truth to power”
So... either someone is failing, or "we" have got it all wrong - self-identification is whatever you want to be and the courage to be who you want demands our respects.
one or the other -
either the universe is binary - light or dark, good or bad, right or wrong
or nothing matters
If nothing matters, why do we still take a piss test? Why cant we drink while deployed? Why cant we have dirty magazines while deployed?
...our choices are all respectable aren't they?
Arent they?