Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 45 | 43 | It is generally regarded as good for discipline. |
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 45 | 40 | Commonly this is done with stones or clubs, so that the observing troops, better armed, can enforce the killing, and kill the entire group, should the 'guilty group' be recalcitrant or reluctant to carry out the decimation, which reluctance, incidentally, seldom occurs. |
| 45 | 41 | Commonly the majority of the group, say, nine out of ten, rejoicing in their survival are only too happy to finish the matter and return to duty. |
| 45 | 42 | There is some point to decimation, hideous as it may seem. |
| 45 | 43 | It is generally regarded as good for discipline. |
| 45 | 44 | Also, troops which have followed orders and risked their lives in battle are unlikely to view with tolerance or equanimity those who have shirked their duty and thus, quite possibly, put their fellows in greater peril. |
| 45 | 45 | In some manuals it is recommended that troops should fear their own officers more than the enemy. |
| 45 | 46 | I have never, personally, found this crude recommendation persuasive. |
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Commonly this is done with stones or clubs, so that the observing troops, better armed, can enforce the killing, and kill the entire group, should the 'guilty group' be recalcitrant or reluctant to carry out the decimation, which reluctance, incidentally, seldom occurs.
Commonly the majority of the group, say, nine out of ten, rejoicing in their survival are only too happy to finish the matter and return to duty.
There is some point to decimation, hideous as it may seem.
It is generally regarded as good for discipline.
Also, troops which have followed orders and risked their lives in battle are unlikely to view with tolerance or equanimity those who have shirked their duty and thus, quite possibly, put their fellows in greater peril.
In some manuals it is recommended that troops should fear their own officers more than the enemy.
I have never, personally, found this crude recommendation persuasive.
- (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 45)