Vanity. It's the Devil's favourite sin.
How depressing that people who fluctuate between self-aggrandizement and narcissism still have such a disproportionate influence on the world.
What a dark joke that innocent men, women and children, are dying in large part due to someone's ego, fear, and hurt feelings. Putin and his supporters may attempt to rationalise their reasons for going to war, but this is what it boils down to. Emotional behaviour.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
John F. Kennedy
No. Everyone gets a weed-out class.
It functions as a defacto entrance exam. Like a navy SEALs bootcamp where everyone's allowed to enter, but those dumb or deluded enough to think they can make it, run away screaming once they finally realise they don't have what it takes.
Certainly better than having the weed-out classes later on in your studies, especially when you're writing your (graduate?)master's thesis/research.
I don't live in the US. Due to historical/religious reasons, the government here doesn't do standardised testing in schools and gives schools quite a lot of freedom. Graduate from the worst school and you can still go to university (with some exceptions for stuff like med, but I digress).
What my university did, is simply schedule a really horrible statistics course on the monday morning, first year, first semester, course book thicker than the bible. Same thing for most courses. You're studying German? Enjoy learning advanced grammar at 8AM. You're studying history? Roman history with a side of Latin at 8AM. The overfull auditorium emptied within weeks as people dropped out.
Maybe universities in Florida should do something similar. Rather than refusing students, have them quit. Certainly a financially disastrous way to learn the limits of the power of prayer and the relevance of the bible to statistics, but the Lord works in mysterious ways.
And as any fitness business will testify after the month of january, it's an excellent business model having the majority who drop out subsidise those who don't. Really allows you to improve the level of service you can offer those who don't quit.
Time begins and then time ends.
And then time begins once again.
It is happening now, it has happened before, it will surely happen again.
They Kremlin and Russians must have had a big laugh about that.
"Haha. We got away with using a chemical weapon near a large military base. A terrorist attack that could have killed thousands. We were right. The degenerate west are too weak to do anything about it. We scared them into doing nothing."
Wonder if they're still laughing now. Suspect at least a few of those involved are now dead.