School districts with denser population tend to have more success in athletics. Why? Larger student population to draw from.

When looking for the best, you start with the largest pool of candidates manageable, and narrow it down.
There is no sensible, logical or practical reason to keep otherwise physically and mentally capable humans from serving in the military.
The reasons are merely sanctimonious and prurient.

15 years ago it was very difficult to find an IT job in the state without having to pass a drug test. Eventually they realized when a sizable amount of your candidates are smoking marijuana, and succeeding at other companies, it's a dumb reason to lessen your candidate pool.

In the US Civil war, the south arguably had better overall strategies and leadership, but the North had an much larger mass of bodies.

The 300 are all heroes, but eventually they were dead heroes who succumbed to a much superior force in numbers.

Imagine lowering the candidate pool of people who can send to war? It's a well known fact one sure way to win a war is to throw more bodies at your opponent.

Was it good for you?

Did we know each other prior?

It's hard to be a martyr when you're bulletproof. Ending this shit will take sacrifice.
Once again, all personal opinion. Food for thought. I get both sides of the argument subjectively. Objectively, we can do better.

Another political move that made all this was turning the filibuster from a huge personal commitment to an administrative tool that had no limitations.
So I would be in favor of returning old penalties for breaks of decorum, even if the Democrats are the ones punished at first.