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

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:35:11 +0000, Tony Polson wrote:

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.

The odd thing is that although your post seems to have been written with
a sardonic tone, it describes all of the ex-service personnel with whom
I am most closely acquainted. One in particular is lost without someone
telling him what to do. *He* might not register among the socially
dysfunctional, but he drove his wife to an alcoholism-related death and
his adolescent daughters certainly do. To be honest, I really wish I
wasn't in a position to share that anecdote.
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