Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site grkermit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!grkermit!larry From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Bloody shreds revisited Message-ID: <525@grkermit.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 16:14:14 EDT Article-I.D.: grkermit.525 Posted: Wed Jul 27 16:14:14 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 23:11:53 EDT References: <203@aplvax.UUCP> <523@grkermit.UUCP> <507@mit-eddie.UUCP> Organization: GenRad Inc., Concord, MA Lines: 57 From: Scott Hamilton [From: larry kolodney] The question is: how can [putting only appropriate people into [combat] be done? Simple, take all the murderers in the country and put them in uniform. The major qualification to being in the armed forces is the ready willingness and ablility to murder somebody on command. With philosophy like this, we might as well all be dead. Speak for yourself, I like life. There's nothing I would like better than having some confirmed psycopath have access to any weapon system he would like, as well as having the potential of him having control over other men. "Gee guys, lets go over to that judge who convicted me, and give him a good time. Is that okay with you, Sir?" "Sure, he put me here too." Not all murders are psychopaths, but thats besides the point. How many Vietnam veterans are in prisons and mental institutions right now? I think that appallingly (sp?) high number shows that if you aren't nuts when you go into combat, you certainly will be when you get out. And let's not mention nuclear warfare. This country's military forces needs all the same people it can to keep us from blowing ourselves up. We were discussing combat positions. I never said we should give the killers command positions, those should go to secular humanists who value human life above all. Please excuse me for continuing Mr. Kolodney's clutter of this newsgroup. Now, now, lets not get ad hominem. Finally, One of the ROTC instructors at MIT has a bumber sticker on his car that says: "I'd rather be killing communists" If this man is not psychotic, than what is he? -- -- Larry Kolodney #8 (Moving up) (USENET) decvax!genrad!grkermit!larry allegra!linus!genrad!grkermit!larry (ARPA) rms.g.lkk@mit-ai