OT:US don't qualify for EU membership, don't spank children, WW2 history.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by General Woundwort:
Amazing how far a thread can go in 24 hours...

Tell me, Ruatha, have you ever read Heinlein's Starship Troopers? What do you think of the way he portrays the use of pain as a moral deterent (in both children and adults) in that novel? I will qualify my statement by saying that I don't agree with the evolutionary basis he uses for that theory, but there seems to be a recognition of the non-rationality in people that sometimes can only be restrained by non-rational means.

Yep. I've read it but it was so many years ago that I don't recall all the details, sorry.

When I was younger I liked Heinlein but now I don't find them entertaining, "Friday", "The cat who", "Lazarus long", "have spacesuit" etc etc, many of them where quite pubertal, (So I can see why I liked them )
"Starship troopers" was a bit different I think but still, didn't it have that boy gets attractive girl story that most Heinlein books centers around?
When I read it that was propably what interested me most I guess, will have to reread it someday. I saw the movie but it didn't remind me all that much of the book, only superficial, but then i don't recall the book all that much do I

[ July 26, 2003, 19:18: Message edited by: Ruatha ]