In Starship Troopers, federal service is always voluntary and never compulsory. The logic behind this being that a society that can't depend upon volunteers for its own defense does not deserve to survive. If a person signs up for federal service, they can quit at any time. But if they quit before their term is up, they don't get the right to vote and they are never allowed to sign up for federal service again.
Right, and the core idea is that if someone wasn't willing to (potentially) sacrifice themselves for the whole, then they eschewed being able to make decisions for the whole (e.g. voting). Citizens were still otherwise granted all freedoms and liberties, though.
The way it's explained in the book is quite brilliant and made sense to me. Oh, and just like in the film, lightweights were actively discouraged from the start with people like the legless recruiter.
In Starship Troopers, federal service is always voluntary and never compulsory. The logic behind this being that a society that can't depend upon volunteers for its own defense does not deserve to survive. If a person signs up for federal service, they can quit at any time. But if they quit before their term is up, they don't get the right to vote and they are never allowed to sign up for federal service again.
U very smart on starship troopers.
I've always meant to read the book but never got around to it, unfortunately.
It's one of my favorite sci-fi novels. I've read it several times over the years.
The only books/series I've read multiple times are Narnia and Dragonriders of Pern. Dragonriders is like 15 books tho so it's an extreme example.
I definitely expect to reread all the Lord of the Rings books at some point too but haven't gotten to it yet.
I'm definitely more of a fantasy reader than a sci-fi reader, but Starship Troopers and Dune are two sci-fi novels I've read multiple times.
I've read the Lord of the Ring trilogy many times, as well as the original Conan the Barbarian stories written by Robert E. Howard back in the 1930s.
Right, and the core idea is that if someone wasn't willing to (potentially) sacrifice themselves for the whole, then they eschewed being able to make decisions for the whole (e.g. voting). Citizens were still otherwise granted all freedoms and liberties, though.
The way it's explained in the book is quite brilliant and made sense to me. Oh, and just like in the film, lightweights were actively discouraged from the start with people like the legless recruiter.