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So, basically, two-thirds of the vets on this thread tell you one thing, but we're all wrong? Again?

Is the majority right simply because they are a majority?
 
Is the majority right simply because they are a majority?

When it comes to anecdotal evidence, yes.

Example: 10 people eat ****. 7 of them say it tastes terrible. Who are you going to believe?
 
Is the majority right simply because they are a majority?

that's the arguement gay supporters are now using.... "a majority of the country now thinks gay marriage is OK" etc. funny how the arguement is invalid...until your side starts using it. :lol:
 
When it comes to anecdotal evidence, yes.

Example: 10 people eat ****. 7 of them say it tastes terrible. Who are you going to believe?

And your example fails, because if those 7 are eating at a chineese restraunt but hate chineese food that doesn't make them right. Again, just because you have a mjaority, doesn't make you right.

The majority voted for Obama, so I guess according to your logic, they were right.
 
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that's the arguement gay supporters are now using.... "a majority of the country now thinks gay marriage is OK" etc. funny how the arguement is invalid...until your side starts using it. :lol:

Nope, that isn't the argument I or most have used for making gay marriage legal. Try again.
 
And your example fails, because if those 7 are eating at a chineese restraunt but hate chineese food that doesn't make them right. Again, just because you have a mjaority, doesn't make you right.

The majority voted for Obama, so I guess according to your logic, they were right.

What kind of unit were you in? Weren't you a cook or some ****?
 
What kind of unit were you in? Weren't you a cook or some ****?

No, I wasn't a cook. I was an 11B for 6 years until I reclassified to a 98C until I retired.

None of which has anything to do with the fact that you are somehow claiming that just because the majority think something they are right.
 
Of course you do. I don't expect you to understand.

Because it doesn't make sense. What's your argument, that some people won't like it, therefore causing problems within the unit? Well to damn bad, the people that don't like it can get over themselves, and be professionals. Otherwise they aren't fit for the Armed Services. What happens when the majority of soldiers have a problem with a muslim in their combat unit? Would you want the muslim soldier kicked out, or would you just tell the other soldiers to shut up, and act like soldiers, instead of immature children who don't have the maturity to handle matches, much less a gun?
 
No, I wasn't a cook. I was an 11B for 6 years until I reclassified to a 98C until I retired.

None of which has anything to do with the fact that you are somehow claiming that just because the majority think something they are right.

In this case, the majority isn't thinking anything.
 
Because it doesn't make sense. What's your argument, that some people won't like it, therefore causing problems within the unit? Well to damn bad, the people that don't like it can get over themselves, and be professionals. Otherwise they aren't fit for the Armed Services. What happens when the majority of soldiers have a problem with a muslim in their combat unit? Would you want the muslim soldier kicked out, or would you just tell the other soldiers to shut up, and act like soldiers, instead of immature children who don't have the maturity to handle matches, much less a gun?

Of course it doesn't make sense to you. Walk a mile in my shoes, then you can tell me it doesn't make sense.
 
Of course it doesn't make sense to you. Walk a mile in my shoes, then you can tell me it doesn't make sense.

Of course, don't address the question, just say I'm experienced so that makes me right! :roll:
 
Of course, don't address the question, just say I'm experienced so that makes me right! :roll:

So, you inexperience trumps my experience? Or, is that the deal in this case, because you don't dig what my experience tells you?

Let's put it another way, an MD tells you that you have a medcial problem. I--a truck driver--tells you that there's nothing wrong with you. Who are you going to believe?
 
So, you inexperience trumps my experience? Or, is that the deal in this case, because you don't dig what my experience tells you?

Let's put it another way, an MD tells you that you have a medcial problem. I--a truck driver--tells you that there's nothing wrong with you. Who are you going to believe?

So you now think that you are somehow the all-klnowing on military and speak for all of us? You have some stories yes, but you are drawing conclusions from them and acting as though they are facts. Your conclusions are your opinions, so please do not act as if you speak for all veterans. You do not speak for me.
 
So you now think that you are somehow the all-klnowing on military and speak for all of us? You have some stories yes, but you are drawing conclusions from them and acting as though they are facts. Your conclusions are your opinions, so please do not act as if you speak for all veterans. You do not speak for me.

Never said that, however there are far more of, "us", than there are of, "ya'll". Are you suggesting that you speak for a majority, that is in obvious disagreement with you? Your only backup are folks that haven't spent a single day in the military and whose arguments are, "you're a homophobe and a bigot", and, "Gee! I don't get it".
 
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Never said that, however there are far more of, "us", than there are of, "ya'll". Are you suggesting that you speak for a majority, that is in obvious disagreement with you?

I speak for myself, and the fact there are "more" of ya'll still don't mean you're right. The majority once thought the world was flat.
 
I speak for myself, and the fact there are "more" of ya'll still don't mean you're right. The majority once thought the world was flat.

I think, in this case, the flat earth folks are the anti-DADT'ers.
 
I think, in this case, the flat earth folks are the anti-DADT'ers.

You can think all you want, still doesn't make you right.
 
Which vet diagrees with me? Redress? She was in the Navy. I'm speaking from the view point--as always--of a veteran member of an actual combat unit, not a pogues unit that never saw a single minute of trigger time.

So, basically, two-thirds of the vets on this thread tell you one thing, but we're all wrong? Again?

Well, I dropped mortars on enemy in As Samawah Iraq in 2003 as a part of the 2nd Brigade Combat team of the 82nd Airborne division.................

And I agree with Redress... and the Massa Saarge.
 
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