re: #297 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Spartans had their own version of slavery, with the elite living on the labors of the working class. And they tested their boys for service in the army by putting them out in the wilderness with nothing at all. Those that managed not to die or get killed by wild animals on the way back home were considered fit for service.

Plus, you had to serve in the army until you were 30. Then you could participate in the governance of Sparta.

Most of these yokels sporting Molon Labe would not have survived childhood in Sparta, much less service in the Spartan infantry.

Oh, yeah. Babies that were deformed or deemed unfit were left out in the wilderness for the animals to eat. I wonder how the pro-lifers would feel about that aspect of Spartan society.

Yeah, but those babies were already born, at which point the Right loses any interest.