Back during the Vietnam War there were Marxists who would set fire to buildings and then cut the hoses with an axe when the firefighters showed up to fight the fire. But now the grandchildren of those same Marxists whine about their feelings being hurt by any statement of the truth.
Too bad, bitches.
These children* wouldn't last ten seconds in infantry basic training at Fort Benning. And that's a good thing because I absolutely wouldn't trust any of these utterly pathetic wastes of matter and energy on any field of battle with my life** Seriously, if Comrade Stalin was still around these virtual morons would hand the entire planet over to him right now.
During the summer of 1976 I read a book and changed the way I saw myself and other people.
Robert A. Heinlein in his novel STARSHIP TROOPERS put forth the radical idea that adulthood was not only a physical state but a distinctly moral one as well. And while physical maturity was obvious to an objective observer the moral state was not. Given that the mentally and morally immature were not able to rationally perform the duties of citizenship he proposed to establish a system for sorting out the able from the unable. As it's impossible to compel moral maturity what's required is voluntary system to separate functional citizens from the dysfunctional losers. While Heinlein did present his system of Federal Service in altruistic terms it does allow the separation of moral dead weights, such as the losers above, from mentally and morally active people.
* And that's an insult to children.
** Furthermore the slave collar on one at the right is not a sign of rebellion but a clear sign of submission to a master and shooting both of them is an absolute waste of ammunition.
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