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From: larry@grkermit.UUCP (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Bloody shreds revisited
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Date: Wed, 27-Jul-83 16:14:14 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 27 16:14:14 1983
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	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?

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