Do you mean that having political opinions isn’t an acceptable choice in your country?
I thought the ensuing sentence clarified this.
- Obviously, you can have all the opinions you want here
- You cannot, however, make disparaging remarks about the Commander in Chief while in uniform. When you join the military, you no longer go by the same rules as private citizens. This is because you’re no longer one. I’m not a JAG, but I’m sure there’re plenty of rights which private citizens enjoy but which could fall under “conduct unbecoming.”
- I don’t think you’ll find a single recruiter in our military who’d knowingly allow such (visibly) tattood people to enlist.
Also, ftr SMUsax, I didn’t mean to say a tattood person doesn’t care about his/her appearance. Clearly they do. But I still maintain that a person literally covered from head to toe in tattoos does not impart a clean-cut image. And if this thought or possibility never entered such a person’s mind whilst getting all these blatantly visible tattoos, then I really have no sympathy for them when they get denied access to the military. From how I read your post, I gather it’s ok with you if every single member of our military is tattood in such a way. I think this is outrageous. There are plenty of things which don’t affect a person’s performance which we regulate. Hair, for instance. How does this affect performance? Clothes. Does wearing a Class A uniform affect my ability to serve? Can I suddenly decide not to wear clothes at all? Conformity to a standard is a basic part of military life. Individualism is limited, whether or not it affects your ability to serve, as the case may be.