How is Starship Troopers controversial?
Oh ya mean the part where citizens have more rights than the leaches.
Because they made a movie out of it that really blew?
I don't know. Military. NPR. Go figure.
>>> How is Starship Troopers controversial? Oh ya mean the part where citizens have more rights than the leaches.
But you see even you get it wrong. ALL people under that political system have the same RIGHTS. It is the full citizen who however chooses to undertake the added RESPONSIBILITY of the franchise.
“”Superficially, our system is only slightly different; we have democracy unlimited by race, color, creed, birth, wealth, sex, or conviction, and anyone may win sovereign power by a usually short and not too arduous term of service — nothing more than a light workout to our cave-man ancestors.
But that slight difference is one between a system that works, since it is constructed to match the facts, and one that is inherently unstable. Since sovereign franchise is the ultimate in human authority, we insure that all who wield it accept the ultimate in social responsibility — we require each person who wishes to exert control over the state to wager his own life — and lose it, if need be — to save the life of the state. The maximum responsibility a human can accept is thus equated to the ultimate authority a human can exert. Yin and yang, perfect and equal.””