Can you spot the gay soldier??

The Westboro nuts are quite a bit different. They celebrate the death of soldiers as some kind of punishment from God for our country's wicked ways.

 

Obviously people can do whatever they want. But it's like if there are two crimes committed, one is a murderer killing a little boy, and another is a teenager selling pot to someone, but some people make a big stink about the pot dealer, and say nothing about the murderer of the little boy.

One of those crimes is clearly more offensive than the other.

 

Were the people who are upset with the use of a picture also this upset when people wanted to burn a holy book?

 

The gay soldier is the one who caused the two straight solders to the left and right of him to get killed due to his gayness.

 

Dude, I relent! It's just a picture from the show Different Strokes.

 

Soldiers die every day to make political points. That's their purpose.

 

great thread.

Thanks Vets!

 

On point as is often the case Rhad.

It is too bad I must spread some rep to some unworthy souls before I can rep you again.

 

This has what to do with what, exactly?

While burning a book in no way equates to the loss of life, the idea of burning the Koran was stupid, too.

Are there any other ridiculous arguments I have to discuss before my opinion is allowed to be justified?

 

I can see why people would take offense, but it's a good way to send a powerful message - shock value.

 

It would be a lot easier to tell if they weren't in those coffins.

 

Which one was the pedophile?

 

Are you really trying to say homosexual = pedophile?

 

There's a very good chance that none of them are gay.

 

There are 20 caskets in that photo. Given that about 3% of the military is homosexual, and 1 in 20 would be 5%, your statement is not particularly accurate unless we differ greatly on what qualifies as "very good".

 

Over 50% chance.

 

If there's a 3% chance that an individual is gay and there are 20 individuals, then there is a 54.4% chance that none of the 20 individuals is gay. CaseyH wins.




P.S. I spent entirely too much time trying to refresh my memory on how to calculate such a simple probability question.

 

That is only true if you let The Semantic Warrior arbitrarily choose the definition of "very good". From my perspective, a "very good" chance would be significantly better than 50-50. And in general parlance, I think the understanding is that a "very good chance" is something that much more likely to happen than not.

 

I thought I was the semantic warrior.