Variola wrote...
"It would be a pain for their families and worse for their insurers,
certainly, but think of the evolutionary benefits to mankind. You remove folks who *voluntarily* gave up moral control of their bodies to an unjust, cruel regime. Such eagerness to be externally programmed for violence is undesirable in the modern environment, although no doubt considered useful by those who use the mercenary moral zombies."
Well, perhaps a good point. At least a point that should be made and then possibly debated. The question that would seem to follow is whether this is true (ie, that such behavior can be weeded out), or will we be doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over? Given the track record of human history, I would think the latter, though perhaps we are in a "modern era".
Oh, and it occurrs to me that this may be an additional reason why our schools suck. Create soft, steerable minds that can be easily motivated to kill "them", because they are "evilbadragheads" (stop). Reward jock-creation and aggression through trophies and short-skirted cheerleaders.
Well, if you are correct, then such weeding out would be the ultimate "revenge of the nerds"!
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