You. What is the moral difference, ifany, between the soldier and the civilian?"" The difference, " I answered carefully, "lies in the field of civicvirtue. A soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the bodypolitic of which he is a member, defending it, if need be, with his life. The civilian does not. Robert A. Heinlein
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