Re: [SG] Islamic Bombers

Let's just say that if the castrati lost the round, but not the slender
as a result of becoming castrati...

No illegitimate children to muck up their marriage potential.]

Was that vague but informative enough.

--Flak

On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 10:09:45 -0500
Richard and Emily Bell <rlbell@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 
> 
> Laserlight wrote:
> 
> > Richard Bell wrote:
> >
> > > Nobody has suicide squads until after the war has been lost.
> >
> > With enough training/brainwashing, I don't see why not.  There was a
> > sect in the middle east a few years ago (AD1300-1400 or thereabouts,
> > IIRC) where the men castrated themselves.
> 
> Did it kill them?  Was it a doomsday cult that felt desperate?  If it
> takes more training to produce a suicide bomber than a combat
rifleman,
> why aren't you producing more combat riflemen?
> 
> Castration is not that extreme.  There are people that voluntarily
> reject the pleasures of the flesh, but make it harder by NOT
castrating
> themselves.  There was a time in Chinese history where guaranteeing
that
> you would have no blood descendants was the surest way to political
> power.  Even in the late nineteenth century, certain boys, in Europe,
> were convinced to allow themselves to be castrated to preserve a
singing
> career [aside: oddly, these castrati were never at loose ends for the
> intimate company of attractive women, but one often wonders why].

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