{"id":9576,"date":"2011-02-25T02:25:27","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T07:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=9576"},"modified":"2011-02-21T03:25:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T08:25:43","slug":"general-discusses-military-moral-imperative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/25\/general-discusses-military-moral-imperative\/","title":{"rendered":"General Discusses Military &#8220;Moral Imperative&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Air National Guard, LtGen Harry Wyatt recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123242640\">addressed a graduation<\/a> of an Equal Opportunity course for the Reserve Component.\u00a0 Wyatt described &#8220;equitable treatment&#8221; as a &#8220;moral imperative:&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Equal opportunity] graduates are the &#8216;change agents&#8217; that help to educate people on the need &#8212; the moral imperative &#8212; to be equitable in our treatment of all people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The semantic choice is interesting, if you think about it, because he doesn&#8217;t say <em>equal<\/em> treatment.\u00a0 <em>Equitable<\/em> means &#8220;fair;&#8221; <em>equal<\/em> means &#8220;the same;&#8221; the distinction is often missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of the Air National Guard, LtGen Harry Wyatt recently addressed a graduation of an Equal Opportunity course for the Reserve Component.\u00a0 Wyatt described &#8220;equitable treatment&#8221; as a &#8220;moral imperative:&#8221; [Equal opportunity] graduates are the &#8216;change agents&#8217; that help to educate people on the need &#8212; the moral imperative &#8212; to be equitable in our treatment of all people. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1470,1468,2,1469],"class_list":["post-9576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-equal-opportunity","tag-harry-wyatt","tag-military","tag-moral-imperative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}