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   TBYG (tbyg@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 07:12:46 JST TBYG

   @RustyBertrand Just adding that it was a Heinlein character who said that, not Heinlein himself. I once proved to a Heinlein newsgroup that an opinion expressed in a story was in fact his own, but it wasn't that one.

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     Robert Link (phaedral@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 07-Dec-2024 07:14:24 JST Robert Link

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     @TBYG @RustyBertrand Heinlein fans definitely come in various flavors.

     I "won" an argument on a lawyers list about this principle, after a school shooting. It was a proud moment.

     The Heinlein story which most typifies this argument, "Beyond This Horizon" posits empathy as the next step in human evolution, rather at odds with the "armed equals manners" premise.

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     TBYG (tbyg@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Monday, 09-Dec-2024 02:12:36 JST TBYG

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     • Robert Link

     @phaedral @RustyBertrand
     I think a lot of people misunderstand or don't notice that part, much as a lot of people misunderstand or don't notice the details of the service requirements for voting in _Starship Troopers_.