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Originally Posted by Sigaba
Peregrino--
Sir, thank you for your comments. You've given me a lot to think about.  Especially your observation that I'm "trying to do a direct comparison of apples and bananas."
I understand that I may be hoping for a type of disinterestedness that may not benefit the armed forces who collectively take a utilitarian approach to history and other disciplines. |
No Sir - Thank YOU, for providing me with some light entertainment and an opportunity to expose you to a "slightly" different mindset. Don't condemn the "utilitarian approach". When our chosen profession has so many areas that require mastery, why waste valuable effort on something that isn't useful? Utilitarian is just conservation of resources/effort. We can work hard, or work smart (and I'm lazy by preference!). Now I can put up the nerf bat and go back to lurking with a real club. 
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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