ethos. Maximum lethality.

Sending a second rocket to kill a man in the water clinging to a sunken boat is a war crime.

Hegseth is not a responsible commander .

It is a fundamental component to conscious experience in humans. It interacts with, and in turn impacts, the wiring and firing of the brain and so have a profound influence on how we act, interact, and respond.

"At the base of every war crime is testosterone" reduces the crimes to the deeds of the chemical, not the individuals who conducted the war crimes.

Testosterone does not orient the moral axis of the individual, which lives somewhere in the amygdala and the frontal cortex. If you wanted to implicate a chemical as the root of crimes, I think dopamine might have something to say. Dopamine always has something to say.

You raise the interesting point that, no matter what, there will be a humiliation across the board for military members receiving testosterone testing. Test tests for the testes.

However, this policy is just gender affirming care for cis men. It is a way for his DOD to get steroids if they want it. That's all. I don't think they'll start dismissing "low T warriors" which is maybe not a great band name.

Thanks for your post.

It is. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

Navy, and Airmen, Pervitin. It was pure methamphetamine. That's why their "blitz kreig" worked so well.....for a while.

Hitler himself was a junkie. His "doctor" injected him with a cocktail of drugs each day. Hitler actually thought they were vitamins.

Until the doctor couldn't get Hitler's "vitamins" anymore near the end of the war. Hitler suffered from depression and withdrawal after that, then shot himself.

Trump's "Turd Reich" would naturally follow Hitler's course of action. You'll never convince me that Hair Furor isn't being chemically propelled 24/7/365. Just like his hero, Hitler.

Autocorrect just changed it to "perdition." That works, too.

Although they pronounced it as per-VI'-tin, as in vitamin. I'm not buying it.

There’s plenty more brewing in Pandora’s Box. DNA tests to sort the best traits for “warfighters” to mix with Elon and The Felon’s gene pools and Elon’s chip to breed a fighting force without the unpleasant spectre of grieving mothers.

I’m trying for outlandish here, while I’m pretty sure there’s a bar napkin with this very notion on it somewhere.

They will use it as an excuse to get rid of people and deny them their pensions

I know for I needed to take T (via a lotion) to build it up when doc discovered it was low.

H has way too much T in his body for a public office.