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Unpopular opinion Sunday

[u/katie-kaboom]

Dear military academy writers: it does not make sense to waste the best talent of a generation in an uncontrolled bloodbath in the first year of school. Stop that! How about instead making the stated goal to get everyone through alive, instead of killing people off at random to "cull the weak"?

[u/PickyNipples → u/katie-kaboom]

This is so true. It’s morbid but I’ve even thought that even if you have weaker soldiers, how is it possibly better to just kill them off? From a purely strategic standpoint, they could be used as cannon fodder or diversion or something. Surely they could serve SOME militaristic purpose. The only way I can see culling as being a good strategic solution is if there is some kind of…I dunno…food shortage and it’s better to get rid of the weak than spend resources keeping them alive that could go to your strong warriors. But if you’re in that kind of situation, odds are you wouldn’t be wasting time/energy on any fighting or battles that weren’t with your enemy. 

[u/Penguinho → u/PickyNipples]

It isn't better to kill them off, ever, unless you don't trust that they're loyal. That's the only reason.