Maybe I need to draw a picture

I've been pointing this out for a while, but someone made a meme of it.


Of course, it leaves out the dueling culture aspect of this piece of trash, but you can't have everything.

Got it?  This comes from a sci-fi novel and has no basis in reality.

More on that idiotic quote from Robert Heinlein.

"An armed society is a polite society", which comes from Robert Heinlein’s "Beyond This Horizon" where duels may easily occur when someone feels that they have been wronged or insulted is attributed as a custom that keeps order and politeness. One difference, Heinlein's world had a code where someone who didn't want to duel could wear a yellow ribbon.

That doesn't seem to be the case in the US.

Should public policy be decided by Science Fiction?

"an armed society is a polite one"

That comes from science fiction writer Robert Heinlein's book Beyond This Horizon. One sub-theme of the book is the carrying and use of firearms. In the novel being armed is part of being a man; otherwise he wears a brassard and is considered weak and inferior. Women are allowed but not expected to be armed. Duels, either deadly or survivable, may easily occur when someone feels that they have been wronged or insulted, a custom that keeps order and politeness.

Is a work of science fiction one we should be modeling society upon?