Thread: OT:US don't qualify for EU membership, don't spank children, WW2 history.
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Old July 26th, 2003, 07:30 PM
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Default Re: OT:US don\'t qualify for EU membership, don\'t spank children, WW2 history.
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.
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