03-18-2004, 01:36 AM
Considering the punishment for falling asleep on watch in the Roman army was to be beaten to death by your tent-mates, I'd say disrespectful attitudes like the one you described Jim, would be rare and painfully short. The discipline was far more important than the individual, as I hope the above example demonstrates.<br>
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There was an interesting programme on British TV recently where two groups were trained with incentives or punishment. It was called "Carrot and Stick" or something similar.<br>
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By the end, I was left with the very strong impression that if I wanted a team to run a leisure centre, I would use the Carrot boys, but the Stick group were the ones to go to war with, no doubt about it. We do tend to forget that lack of respect for authority is a post World war one phenomenon, culturally cemented by 'fragging' and so on, in Vietnam. I do not believe for a single moment, that Roman soldiers would have been openly disrespectful, or not more than once.<br>
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I'm really going to have to see this film.<br>
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Conn <p></p><i></i>
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There was an interesting programme on British TV recently where two groups were trained with incentives or punishment. It was called "Carrot and Stick" or something similar.<br>
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By the end, I was left with the very strong impression that if I wanted a team to run a leisure centre, I would use the Carrot boys, but the Stick group were the ones to go to war with, no doubt about it. We do tend to forget that lack of respect for authority is a post World war one phenomenon, culturally cemented by 'fragging' and so on, in Vietnam. I do not believe for a single moment, that Roman soldiers would have been openly disrespectful, or not more than once.<br>
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I'm really going to have to see this film.<br>
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Conn <p></p><i></i>
