{"id":3993,"date":"2013-01-26T10:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3993"},"modified":"2013-01-26T10:15:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T15:15:11","slug":"did-he-just-false-dilemma-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3993","title":{"rendered":"Did he just false dilemma himself?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jed Babbin<\/a>, over at The American Spectator, has some objections to the gender-integration of combat troops.\u00c2\u00a0 He breaks the issue into two questions:<\/p>\n

First and foremost is whether the presence of women will add to or detract from the readiness and capability of the unit to perform its mission<\/strong>. The second is a moral question: Will having women serve in harm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way benefit our military and society at large?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK. That sounds fine.\u00c2\u00a0 Though the second moral question seems improperly formed.\u00c2\u00a0 Shouldn’t it be less an issue of serving society at large but more an issue of equal treatment of those in the military (i.e., not having a glass ceiling for women)?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, regardless, Babbin holds that the answer to the second is a NO, but he feels like the PC police will descend on him if he says much more about it:<\/p>\n

The question of benefit to society has been mooted politically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He then turns to the question, again, whether the presence of women will add or detract from readiness:<\/p>\n

So we are left with the first question, which has to be answered with a resounding \u00e2\u20ac\u0153no.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wait.\u00c2\u00a0 He posed the dilemma (add or detract), and now he says ‘no.’\u00c2\u00a0 Now, that doesn’t mean that he’s going to be arguing for a third option (though, given the way the question is posed, it should). Given what he says later (like, having women around yields “complete the destruction of the warrior culture”) it’s pretty clear that what Babbin means to say is that it will detract from readiness.\u00c2\u00a0 But, sheesh!\u00c2\u00a0 Somebody over there is playing (and being paid to be an) editor, right?<\/p>\n

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Jed Babbin, over at The American Spectator, has some objections to the gender-integration of combat troops.\u00c2\u00a0 He breaks the issue into two questions: First and foremost is whether the presence of women will add to or detract from the readiness and capability of the unit to perform its mission. The second is a moral question: … Continue reading Did he just false dilemma himself?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,519],"tags":[1037,1579],"class_list":["post-3993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-dichotomy","category-ignorance-of-basic-matters-of-logic","tag-false-dilemma","tag-self-inflicted-argumentative-wounds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3996,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3993\/revisions\/3996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}