Starship Troopers
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:03:00
Let's sum up.
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This year we explored
the failure of democracy...

:03:05
- Bad boy.
- how the social scientists
brought our world...

:03:07
to the brink of chaos.
:03:09
We talked about the veterans,
how they took control...

:03:11
and imposed the stability
that has lasted for generations since.

:03:16
You know these facts...
:03:17
but have I taught you anything
of value this year?

:03:20
Hmm?
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You. Why are only citizens
allowed to vote?

:03:23
It's a reward,
:03:25
what the Federation gives you
for doing Federal Service.

:03:28
No. No.
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Something given
has no value.

:03:33
Look, when you vote, you are
exercising political authority.

:03:36
You're using force. And force,
my friends, is violence,

:03:40
the supreme authority from which
all other authority is derived.

:03:44
Uh, my mother always said
violence never solves anything.

:03:47
Really?
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I wonder what the city fathers
of Hiroshima would say about that.

:03:52
You.
:03:54
They probably wouldn't say anything.
Hiroshima was destroyed.

:03:58
Correct.
:03:59
Naked force has resolved
more issues...

:04:01
throughout history
than any other factor.

:04:04
The contrary opinion, that
violence never solves anything,

:04:07
is wishful thinking
at its worst.

:04:09
People who forget that
always pay.

:04:12
Rico, what's the moral
difference, if any...

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between a civilian
and a citizen?

:04:18
A citizen accepts personal
responsibility for the safety...

:04:21
of the body politic,
defending it with his life.

:04:24
- A civilian does not.
- The exact words of the text.

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But do you understand it?
Do you believe it?

:04:32
- I don't know.
- Of course you don't.

:04:35
I doubt anyone here would
recognize civic virtue...

:04:37
if it reached up
and bit you in the ass.

:04:56
Not here.
:04:58
Come on, let's see if they
posted the math final.


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