"All You Zombies—" is overwhelmingly the most representative Heinlein story because ultimately all the characters (possibly all the people period) are the author and they're all fucking. startling level of solipsism
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The underlying idea that smart people are good people is so pernicious.
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He said that an armed society is a polite society, which we can see from the Internet is exactly correct.
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Eventually, he also only had four characters, two of whom were older versions of their younger selves, all four often appearing in the same novel...which kinda makes the whole time-travel incest thing inevitable.
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I think everyone should have to cook two eggs over easy to be allowed to vote
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"Instead of rebutting the actual argument, I'll nutpick something totally unrelated to assassinate character instead." - Jeet Heer
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What's the actual argument?
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Yeah, Heinline loved to push buttons and write about morality as it differs from culture to culture. But, in both instances he opined in the context of a fictitious novel. I don't believe he actually advocated for either position in real life.
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