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[–] 39 points 1 year ago

The really funny thing is that this quote is from "Beyond This Horizon" by Robert A. Heinlein.

It's one of his lesser works, but it features a government that monitors and encourages human breeding and keeps a lower caste of 'control naturals' to ensure there is wild stock on hand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_This_Horizon

full quote

Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. That’s a personal evaluation only. But gun-fighting has a strong biological use. We do not have enough things that kill off the weak and the stupid these days. But to stay alive as an armed citizen a man has to be either quick with his wits or with his hands, preferably both.

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