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Old 05-19-2008, 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Amazed
You will first have to decide on a baseline. Until you do, you are discussing two seperate issues. He/she is using Moral Relativity against your argument of an absolute.
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Two issues, no. I am not buying his argument. When he joined the army he gave up his right to pick and choose how and where the army would deploy him.

The rules were stated when he joined, he can't rewrite the contract after the fact.
Amazed is making a very valid point...I, who happen to be a he who has been drafted, twice, am addressing this from a different perspective which if you look at it a slight bit differently you may be able to understand why I say I agree with you and yet make an argument which you see as a sign that I don't.
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