For what it's worth, although I disagree with your ratios (1 for a battalion? Methinks you take the piss)
Me? Never
We really need a smiley with a halo haha.
OK, fine. So let's demean, deride, deskill and deconstruct our defence - because clearly person-for-person they're only worth one three-hundredth of a street-sweeper ( ) and then, when we are being invaded, we'll all just roll over and play dead, shall we, because we will have no credible defence. They will all have left in order to raise their social standing three-hundredfold by sweeping streets, apparently.
Firstly, (as you well know) social standing has nothing to do with social utility. When did I mention social standing? Then again I did say "worth more" without qualifying it so I suppose I bear some of the responsibility for your confusion.
As for the rest. Do you (genuinely) feel we (the United Kingdom) are facing an existential
military threat? If we were (for example) to retain the Navy, a slimmed down RAF (hopefully as the Republican Air Force
) and essentially replace the army with an almost entirely territorial army based force then what to we lose? The ability to invade small oil; rich Middle Eastern nations? Oh Noes, woe is me.
This brings me on to
OK, fine. So let's demean, deride, deskill and deconstruct our defence - because clearly person-for-person they're only worth one three-hundredth of a street-sweeper ( ) and then, when we are being invaded, we'll all just roll over and play dead, shall we, because we will have no credible defence. They will all have left in order to raise their social standing three-hundredfold by sweeping streets, apparently.
Obviously if we
needed to fight a war in defense of our sons and daughters (as opposed to blowing up evil brown Mohammedans for no reason) those street sweepers (and everyone else) would sit at home waiting for the occupation rather than volunteering?
You seem to have a very low opinion of the British public. In the very unlikely even of the hun trying to come back or another Spanish Armada being sighted then even I would be up for sending the fuckers home in as brutal a fashion as possible.
Bingo we have street sweepers who can be soldiers when needed and who wont be sitting around eating up tax payers money and demanding to be the only citizens with a vote when not.
We haven't fought a war even close to that since the Falklands.
If you were to bringing qualified voting, fair enough it does have some decent arguments (even if on the whole I come down against it).
Why does helping the Yanks out with invading Iraq and confiscating their many invisible WMDs qualify military personal for a vote more than say a council street sweeper who makes more of a difference to public life, does it for less money and doesn't increase the likelihood of some religions nutter trying to blow me up on a train while doing it?
That question is not rhetorical. In a qualified voting system it would seem to me that neither would qualify.
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own.
"The IDF is retarded" - Zionist Nationalist