[vooch]

hilarious - my work took me in every nook and crany the world has to offer. Spent much of my childhood overseas with the ‘rents.

Even more hilarious that you equate mature reflection with cowardice and reckless paranoia with heroism

[Chainmail]

I see. If you have indeed traveled the world then you should know two important facts:

1.People all over the world are fascinating, charming, and interesting

2. The last thing on Earth you would ever want is to have them in power over you.

"Mature reflection"? Advocating capitulation isn't mature reflection, it's idiotic. Capitulation means to surrender - ask the French how well that worked out for them.

Sorry about your non-arrival to manhood - courage means facing misery, injury, and maybe death in the service of your family, your community and your country. Courage is not thinking of all the clever things you can do to stay out of doing your duty.

"Paranoia is just common sense when somebody's really after you".