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Originally Posted by Wolfwood2
You seem to be discussing gender integration of the military, though you jumped past the introduction.
Based on your own logic, the quickest way to find the "better way" would be to go ahead and do it and just suffer any problems that result. After a generation or so, all the problems will have been identified via extensive real world experience and there will be lots of people with the know-how to create the better way. As long as it doesn't cause of the loss of any wars along the way, it should all work out eventually.
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Actually, I was just giving an illustration of some of the problems with "new, great, sensitive, and wonderful," coming from those with no idea of what works.
In any case, I don't think so because a) in the absence of a major conventional war the test, so to speak, would be invalid, b) also in that absence, the people who would have to learn, the women, themselves, wouldn't be in the right environment, c) one should never underestimate the ability of the armed forces - any armed force - to make a bad idea look good through sheer weight of effort and duplicity practiced on an heroic scale, and d) a bad result can poison the effort indefinitely.
These, of course, and I mean both your approach and any I might have, presuppose that there _is_ a solution. It's not altogether clear that there is. No, the issues with gender and gender orientation integration are different from racial integration.
Just out of curiosty, how do you feel about, say, medical doctors performing dangerous experiments on unwitting and/or unwilling patients? Pretty awful, no? What's the moral difference between that and performing military experiments on unwilling or unwitting soldiers? Besides that the medical doctors are more likely to know what they're doing, and the probabilities or death are only retail rather than wholesale, I mean?
Yes, by the way, I do have a potentially workable solution in fictive form. Since a)the publisher hates the title (The Amazon's Right Breast), and b) I won't even be submitting it for a year or more, don't look for it in your favorite bookstore anytime soon.