Don't ask Don't Tell...How about Don't ask Don't Care?
Not all of my thoughts are sports related and maybe they should be but has the world become just a bit too intrusive?
The US military's policy of Don't Ask Don't Tell continues to be under attack. It clearly discriminates against gay people. Should gay people have fewer rights than everyone else? Does sexual orientation make some more fit than others to serve their country in times of great need? Is a gay person any more or less likely to faithfully and adequately perform their military duties than a straight person?
I would prefer a policy of Don't Ask Don't Care.
I truly don't care what your preferences are about: sex, politics, religion, homelessness, animal cruelty, peanut allergies, the national debt, what Kim Kardashian had for dinner last night or any other number of highly important topics as long as you show up on time and do your job...well.
Whatever happened to checking all of that personal stuff at the door and doing your job? And if you do your job well why should anyone care about what you did or may do on your free time? Or who you did it with?
Dude...you do your job and I'll do mine...and after that...have a great weekend!
But did you see what Kim K. was wearing last night.
The US military's policy of Don't Ask Don't Tell continues to be under attack. It clearly discriminates against gay people. Should gay people have fewer rights than everyone else? Does sexual orientation make some more fit than others to serve their country in times of great need? Is a gay person any more or less likely to faithfully and adequately perform their military duties than a straight person?
I would prefer a policy of Don't Ask Don't Care.
I truly don't care what your preferences are about: sex, politics, religion, homelessness, animal cruelty, peanut allergies, the national debt, what Kim Kardashian had for dinner last night or any other number of highly important topics as long as you show up on time and do your job...well.
Whatever happened to checking all of that personal stuff at the door and doing your job? And if you do your job well why should anyone care about what you did or may do on your free time? Or who you did it with?
Dude...you do your job and I'll do mine...and after that...have a great weekend!
But did you see what Kim K. was wearing last night.
Posted by Johnny Benjamin MD at 10/15/2010 6:20 AM 
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I agree and think that that's an issue that gets resolved in that a society gets more "developed" in a democratic sense. The less rigid the social framework, the less deviations are frowned upon. By social framework I primarily mean the prevalence of religious and political dogma in said society. If we take the US as an arbitrary example I suspect that gay-bashing, extreme nationalism and intolerance might be greater in rural (maybe southern) areas, where the social framework is more homogen and strict than in say San Francisco or New York. This isn't because urban areas lack morality in a greater sense, but because the deviations are so numerous that it isnt really practical to go around with a constant frown. So don't ask don't care becomes the more practical (and in my mind more sympathetic) approach. I don't want to point fingers to specific establishments gaining from said rigidity, but here's hoping for a new age of enlightment! Thank you, as always, for a great blog!
Jonas
Sweden
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