You can get a lot of design testing of your missile program and you can do a lot of - there's other ways other than physically to develop your weaponization program to get you very close to the real deal.
I think to have the skill set and the ability to physically help others in matters of life and death must be incredibly empowering.
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.
If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit then nothing can be more redemptive.
My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.
Also to be honest my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now aged 35 I want to see what I can achieve physically.
Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage but just plain physical courage.
These rules may seem simple enough but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.