Yes, but if we were Morlocks it would be fine, too--

[bellatrys]

or, Why RAH Should Not Be Taken As An Infallible Moral Guide, Even By ConservatariansJohn Stossel is one of those wingnuts I haven't dealt with before (iirc) mostly because a) he's on TV mostly and I don't have any reception, b) he's not one of the theocrat-wannabes or pseudo-Classicists of my old association, he's one of the Meocons, c) other

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Heinlein et al

[anonymous]

One other major flaw in Starship Troopers - the Bugs are at about the same technological level as the human race. This is a truly cosmic coincidence - off by a century either way and there would be no menace to fight. Of course, without this cosmic coincidence there'd be no justification for the Mobile Infantry - they'd be unnecessary against technologically inferior foes and useless against technologically superior foes. Also note Heinlein had a bad habit of stealing quotes - he swiped from Milton Friedman, D.H. Lawrence, John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer among others.

You've probably already read it, but Philip K Dick's the Golden Man is a pretty devastating critique of morality based on evolutionary superiority. If you haven't read it, look it up.

- DW