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Based on your opinion of the military, which goes back to my point. If we were talking about dating and marrying traveling salespersons, I doubt you'd go on a rant about how valuable these salespeople are to capitalism and how it's superficial to choose not to marry one just because it's inconvenient to you and your family.
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I agree with you regarding traveling salespeople, although I think they don't have the easiest job in the world. However, I was talking about people who go in harm's way lay it all on the line, not people who sell stuff out of a suit case. I would most likely have had the same or a similar reaction regarding paramedics, firefighters, cops, or any profession where one lays it all on the line, all of whom I hold in very high regard, and as I understand it all face difficult conditions in marriage.
And, rather importantly I think, we are looking at this from a crucially different vantage point. If I understand your comments, you are talking about dating and marrying, I am talking only about marrying. Quite a difference from my vantage point. I do not think either of us are playing at obfuscation so would it be fair to say that we are reading from similar but slightly different sheets of music?