Exactly. I wasn't implying that veterans were better. Starship Troopers was simply an example I was giving of a fictional society that was built to somewhat limit comfort and convenience because people will always gravitate toward ease and comfort and away from work and toil and that, in doing so, we risk the "death by comfort" which I discuss with Gemini in one of my posted articles.

There needs to be opposition in order for us to stay strong and, as Bad Cat suggests, intelligent as well.