Comment Re: "The World" is irrelevant to most people (Score 1) 208
Soldiers happen, but they are rare.
They choose to be that way.
It doesn't really have anything to do with anything, it is just an interesting comparison to understand scope. It is like, "the U.S. spend so much money on X per year that if you stacked dollar bills on each other, the stack would reach the moon." What do dollar bills and the moon have to do with each other? Nothing. It is just an amusing comparison for people who have a hard time grasping numbers and their true meaning.
I would say that needing to swear because someone uses the percentage of gays in the US in a comparison probably indicates a problem. Are you unhappy with how many gays there are, or how many soldiers there are.
For the record, I think we have just the right amount of each. Otherwise the market forces would cause more to be created.
Hmm. Now I'll have to go consider what market forces could cause the creation of addition gays...