Haven't read much Heinlein. The song "Starship Trooper" by Yes is very upbeat for a novel and motion picture that both seem pretty bleak, so, my understanding is lots of people misunderstand it.
You need to take Colonel Jean DuBois' (ret.) course in History & Moral Philosophy.
Read the book. HMP is really the neatest thing about it. The power suits & objective star marker on the suit HUD (alà Call of Duty) is only interesting if you consider the book was written in 1958-1959.
I've got to agree with that. I've listened to the audio book a few times and my opinion is that the central them of the book is Responsibility and Consequences and it weights heavily into the HMP sections.
How much responsibility you want to take on is in relationship to the level of consequences you want to risk. It's even stated in the book that a Civilian committing a crime versus a Citizen has a punishment weighted differently. One would get whipped for theft and the other would get hung. Same thing for Enlisted and Officers. One gets whipped for Negligence and the other would get hung. The reason for the difference would be the level of responsibility that the individual would be willing to take on.
Haven't read much Heinlein. The song "Starship Trooper" by Yes is very upbeat for a novel and motion picture that both seem pretty bleak, so, my understanding is lots of people misunderstand it.
You need to take Colonel Jean DuBois' (ret.) course in History & Moral Philosophy.
Read the book. HMP is really the neatest thing about it. The power suits & objective star marker on the suit HUD (alà Call of Duty) is only interesting if you consider the book was written in 1958-1959.
I've got to agree with that. I've listened to the audio book a few times and my opinion is that the central them of the book is Responsibility and Consequences and it weights heavily into the HMP sections.
How much responsibility you want to take on is in relationship to the level of consequences you want to risk. It's even stated in the book that a Civilian committing a crime versus a Citizen has a punishment weighted differently. One would get whipped for theft and the other would get hung. Same thing for Enlisted and Officers. One gets whipped for Negligence and the other would get hung. The reason for the difference would be the level of responsibility that the individual would be willing to take on.