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To: unclewest who wrote (60977)	8/17/2004 7:56:47 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793618

You flunk the test you said I passed. I think you must have in mind a different test. My test was about being about the ability to recognize a principle despite partisanship. That's apparently not valued by everyone hereabouts but it's something that I consider critical for a thinking person. Please tell me what test you have in mind and how my question flunked me. (It never occurred to me that you could flunk a test when you're the one asking the question.) Are you being paid to post here? That good, huh? <g> If you want an officer's with three PHs viewpoint, I can connect you with an officer who served with me who was wounded and medevaced 3 times in 10 days or less and returned to his command each time. I'd be interested in his rationale for doing that just as I am interested in DMA's perspective, which is why I asked him the question. I ask questions because I'm interested in how other people look at things. I realize how alien a concept that may seem. I am always hopeful of getting an answer when I ask a question here despite a poor track record given the frequency of what-planet-are-you-from eyerolls and non-answers. Though by Kerry's standard for Purple Hearts I should have at least 40 I'm not talking about Kerry. I'm trying to analyze the ethics of loopholes. Kerry's three purple heart device was just a good, handy example of people creatively using the rules in unintended ways. We can stick to the Endangered Species Act if you are too close to the PH question to deal with it abstractly. On a related subject, perhaps you could address for me from the perspective of your military-oriented ethics and discipline and patriotism your recommendation that people ignore instructions from the authorities and do their own thing in an emergency situation. On the surface, that seems inconsistent to me. When the battlefield is the homeland and the combatants are civilians, does that change the ethos of discipline and following orders?