An interesting quote from "Starship Troopers", Robert A. Heinlein 1959. The movie that came out in 1997 seems to have very little in common with the book; an excellent discussion of the true meaning of citizenship and the scarcity of honor and self-sacrifice among the human race.
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An exellent website that discusses the book and the 1997 movie (of the same name but with very little else → Continue reading “Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination – devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues – which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.”