The Loyal Opposition

[Luce]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

You are in even less of a position to sneer now, you who hadn't and haven't the mental health to function in military circumstance. You never bet your life on your society, your civilization. I understand you to be an object of contempt, and as far as that goes, you quite agree: when you dislike all things, you dislike yourself not least, and perhaps foremost, among them. You end up swamped in an evil. Dismissed.

I did 10 years in the infantry, and I am sneering.