Chris Tolley wrote:

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:40:54 +0000, James Christie wrote:

send the little *******s off to the Army.

I always wondered about the logic of that. Here's a sociopath, what
shall we do with him? Ah, the perfect thing, put a rifle in his hand.


Yes, there is a strange logic in putting people with no self
discipline into a career where they will never be able to learn it.

This is of course the most likely reason why ex-service personnel are
so strongly over-represented in the prison population, and in almost
every other accepted measure of social dysfunction.



Tony