"SCRIPT" - читать интересную книгу автора (Heinlein Robert - Starship Troopers Screenplay)

RASCZAK
Really ? I wonder what the city fathers of
Hiroshima would have to say about that.
You.

Rasczak points at Carmen.

CARMEN
They probably wouldn't say anything.
Hiroshima was destroyed.

Johnny presses ┤"SEND" on his desk, and the cartoon appears
across the way on Carmen's screen.

RASCZAK
Correct. Naked force has settled more
issues in history than any other factor.
The contrary opinion 'violence never
solves anything' is wishful thinking
at its worst.

While Rasczak looks away, Carmen throws Johnny her wonderful
smile, and Johnny's gone, checked out, flying round Venus.

RASCZAK
People who forget that always pay...
They pay with their lives and their
freedom.

Dizzy notices the dreamy look on Johnny's face.
So does Rasczak. He points at him with his stump,
snaps Johnny to.

RASCZAK
You. Tell me the moral difference,
if any, between the citizen and the civilian ?

JOHNNY
The difference lies in the field of civic
virtue. A citizen accepts personal
responsibility for the safety of the body politic,
of which he is a member, defending it,
if need be, with his life.
The civilian does not.

RASCZAK
The exact words of the text. But do
you understand it ?
Do you believe it ?