All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children.
All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can -
and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial
survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts
to formulate a "perfect society" on any other foundation other than "Women and
children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal.
Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly-
and no doubt will keep on trying.
-- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love"
All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can -
and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial
survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts
to formulate a "perfect society" on any other foundation other than "Women and
children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal.
Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly-
and no doubt will keep on trying.
-- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love"
Related:
- All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant
women and young children... - Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily.
All other "sins" are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself... - Go to Hell!" or other insult direct is all the answer a snoopy question
deserves.
Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough... - A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.
Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough... - Men are more sentimental then women. It blurs their thinking.
Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough... - Of all the strange "crimes" that human beings have legislated out of
nothing,
"blasphemy" is the most amazing--with "obscenity" and... - Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent.
Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough... - The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science
requires reasoning,
while those other subjects merely require scholarship... - There is no such thing as "social gambling." Either you are there to cut
the other bloke's heart out and eat it-
or you're a sucker. If you don't like this choice-...
