Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Thursday, 2024.03.28
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children.
All else is surplus age, excrescence, adornment, luxury or folly which can--and
must--be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival
is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to
formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "women and children
first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless,
starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly--and no doubt will
keep on trying.

		Robert Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love"