Society Rules
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can – and must – dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basis is possible. Attempts to formulate “perfect society” on any foundation other than “Women and children first!” is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly – and no doubt will keep on trying.
- Robert A. Heinlein