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And that justifies advocating "sinking them without question" how exactly?

Yes I'm sure all those people who risked their lives to flee from war, famine, and persecution are really just out to kill us... *rolls eyes*

There may well be countries who shoot trespassers on sight, but this does not make it any less an appalling practise, and does not in any way justify Australia following suit. Don't advocate the killing of human beings without question (itself a war crime) under the guise of trying to 'save...

There's absolutely no valid reason to "sink them without asking questions", as you put forward earlier. As others have pointed out that is not the course of action the Navy would ever take. But even if they did that wouldn't excuse it as the 'right' thing to do.

Those situations are not in the least bit analogous. How exactly is people fleeing persecution comparable to somebody trespassing onto your personal property? What you said was disgusting. 'Knocking on the door' is made impossible for many people because Australia will not issue visas to...

I am fed up with this argument now. You said shit like 'Imagine women dropping grenades because they're too weak', '95+% of deaths would be caused by incompetent women.'

What about it? I didn't say I was in favour of the lower fitness standards. I just think it's illogical to extrapolate that all deaths on the front line are caused by "incompetent women".

You were the one who said that. My god.

I said it before and I will say it one more time: If someone is not fit for the front line, they aren't going to be put there. For any position in the defence force, front line or more clerical, you still have to do the fitness test. My dad was in the navy because where he is from national...

re: HSC Chemistry Marathon Archive You need to look at what kind of intermolecular forces occur between these compounds. Alkanes interact with Van Der Waal's forces due to them not being polar, which are quite weak, hence they have the lowest boiling point of the three. Alkanols and alkanoic...

I concur.

He was talking about how many deaths women were going to be responsible for on the front line. How does that NOT make the gross assumption that women are incompetent? I was pointing out how ridiculous such a comment was. Go back and look at the context of my comment.

Oh for fucks sake, I was putting into words what YOU were implying, not stating my own opinion.

Just because you didn't say those words verbatim doesn't mean everyone on here is thick enough not to be able to see that that was the implication of your argument. Where on earth did I bring up race? I wasn't talking about that at all, you were the one who brought that up. You just used the...

Then why make up bullshit? "Imagine [insert unlikely scenario here]" is a poor argument for anything. If a woman was going to just 'drop' a grenade, chances are she wouldn't even be in the army. The fitness standards for women might be lower but they're still there.

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Yes but what your arguing is pretty much a blanket statement saying that all women are incompetent. You talk about the lower fitness threshold for women, yet just because that number's lower it doesn't mean a lot of the women who go into the defence force wouldn't be well over it. If everyone...

You flat out said that women are incompetent. Of course if someone isn't fit for the front line, you wouldn't put them there. But if someone IS fit enough and they happen to be female why does that matter? And do you have any actual examples of women being given 'special treatment'?

Nice. You assume all women are incompetent with anything remotely physical? As with anything, if someone makes the cut for the front line, surely they make the cut and their gender doesn't matter?

I didn't do grade 12 in NSW so my subjects were different, but I did the general maths equivalent concurrently with grade 12 chemistry and I don't think they really drew on much content from each other at all. The 'mathematical' component in chemistry is all formulae and requires understanding...