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Fantastic Foreskin posted:It's been rather a while since I've read it, but no I'm rather sure military service is the only way to gain citizenship, and that there's a multi-page tirade in the dead middle of it as to why only people who serve in the military are fit for citizenship and that this is the ideal way to run a society. yeah it's pretty explicit that it's military only, if not necessarily combat. this guy summaries the relevant parts of the book pretty well. http://dd-b.net/dd-b/misc/strooper-federal-service.html Fantastic Foreskin posted:The idea behind sufferage for veterans is that they're willing to put the common good ahead of their own as evidenced by their willingness to join the military. It's a strange and oddly utopian line of thinking, but Heinlein was nuts so I suppose that shouldn't be surprising. I suspect current members don't get sufferage since they haven't shown sufficient commitment to the service/society, as evidenced by completing one's tour. Johny Rico's internal monologue: quote:I couldn't to save my life remember why I had signed up. I was sure I remembered a passage in either his high school lessons or officer training where this was challenged as having no basis in anything, but the teacher dismisses that with the admittedly circular logic of it works because it works. but I can't find it now so maybe I'm imagining that.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:No, I remember that too. The teacher asks why continue with this system, gets whatever answer, and declares that it was a trick question because the real reason for keeping any system in place is that "it works". thanks, found It now. "trick question" was what to search for. quote:Major Reid smiled.
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