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Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons fro
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― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
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The very concept of society rests on the idea of networks of affinity and affections, and the freestanding individual exists largely as an outcast or exile. Mobile and individualistic modern societies shed some of these old ties and vacillate about taking on others, especially those expressed through economic arrangements - including provisions for the aged and vulnerable , the mitigation of poverty and desperation - the keeping of one's brothers and sisters. The argument against such keeping is
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― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
― A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
