Obviously there is no excuse for one soldier beating another soldier, so if Harry stepped in to stop a beating that’s a good thing.
Of course, it’s also not ok for a soldier to be a jerk to his comrades. None of us were there, so we can’t say whether or not the gay soldier was being a jerk and thus inviting the beating (for which I could understand disciplining them).
Put it in simple terms: If, at the school playground, Tommy calls Billy a poopyhead and Billy punches Tommy in the face, they are both getting detention. If Billy punches Tommy in the face because Tommy is gay, Billy is getting detention and Tommy is not. Problem here is, we don’t know what Tommy said or if Billy is a homophobe; we’re assuming.
It was a bad situation & some one who could stepped up & did what’s right. I’d like to think we all would, but FaceBook (the Last Refuge of Bigots) often shows me that this still is not so.
As is your right, but I would hope that you’d remember that he’s not running for anything, not shilling for anyone, not trying to boost stock prices, nor trying to jump ticket sales. Who’d have thunk. :dubious:
If the woman was going to be identified to her peers and neighbours, absolutely - Conduct Unbecoming An Officer is the phrase I’d use.
I don’t mind what people do in their private lives, but being discrete about who they do it with is pretty high up there in my list of polite behaviours.
Is there a quota against how often things can be “praiseworthy”? Because I see that sentiment a lot and it always baffles me. Like if we give props for something that really doesn’t deserve it all that much, we’ll all run out of compliments by the ends of the month. So we better save them for the extra, extra good stuff.