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Feb. 29th, 2004 01:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularThere's an opinion poll making the rounds here, asking for opinions on gender and orientation issues. People of any and all genders and orientations are encouraged to answer, to help improve the accuracy of the numbers.
(As opposed to these polls that get junked because people who held the wrong opinion discovered the poll and decided to offer their opinions. I think that if you put a poll out on the Internet, and its discovery outside your constituency ruins it, then the poll was fraudulent in the first place.)
My view is starting to firm up a little, I suppose; on the one hand, I believe that if something is to be legally recognized, it cannot be discriminatory. On the other hand (this may be the part that leaves people scratching their heads), I also believe that the right battle tomorrow may well be the wrong battle today.
Say wha?
Simple. If one battle is fought at the wrong time, even if it's won, the enemy may make advances which would render the victory meaningless, or the won battle may have depleted resources needed for the larger war.
Look at the Battle of the Bulge. Okay, maybe not the best example, but ... well, all I keep coming up with were World War 2 examples.
Let's try again.
In 1942, the Allies weren't ready to invade Europe. If they'd launched an invasion too soon, even if it was the right thing to do, they would have been annihilated, and Hitler would have won the war.
Does that make sense in the current context?
(As opposed to these polls that get junked because people who held the wrong opinion discovered the poll and decided to offer their opinions. I think that if you put a poll out on the Internet, and its discovery outside your constituency ruins it, then the poll was fraudulent in the first place.)
My view is starting to firm up a little, I suppose; on the one hand, I believe that if something is to be legally recognized, it cannot be discriminatory. On the other hand (this may be the part that leaves people scratching their heads), I also believe that the right battle tomorrow may well be the wrong battle today.
Say wha?
Simple. If one battle is fought at the wrong time, even if it's won, the enemy may make advances which would render the victory meaningless, or the won battle may have depleted resources needed for the larger war.
Look at the Battle of the Bulge. Okay, maybe not the best example, but ... well, all I keep coming up with were World War 2 examples.
Let's try again.
In 1942, the Allies weren't ready to invade Europe. If they'd launched an invasion too soon, even if it was the right thing to do, they would have been annihilated, and Hitler would have won the war.
Does that make sense in the current context?
