 What is the paradox of Wayne’s “breaking out” experience?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Worlds of If Science Fiction, July 1962. Wayne, unseen, sneered down from the head of the stairs. His slim mother with nervously polite smiles and voice fluttering, assuring the old man by her frailty that he was big in the world. They were squareheads one and all, marking moron time in a gray dream. School over, waiting for the draft and all. You got to remember about all these dangerous repressed impulses piling up with nowhere to go, like they say. What do we know about adolescent trauma and like that? Squareheads going around either unconscious or with eyes looking dead from the millennium in the office waiting to retire into limbo. He strode under a sign reading Public Youth Center No. 947 and walked casually to the reception desk, where a thin man with sergeant's stripes and a pansy haircut looked out of a pile of paperwork. Draft call." "Thanks, sarge dear," Wayne said and took the elevator up to the Armory. Finally he said, "So make up your mind, bud. It's a big city and you're starting late. He checked them on a receipt ledger, while Wayne examined the weapons, broke open the revolver, twirled the cylinder and pushed cartridges into the waiting chamber. "Wayne Seton," said Captain Jack as if he were discussing something in a bug collection. His legs seemed sheathed in lead as he bit inwardly at shrinking fear the way a dog snaps at a wound.
 -The fact that Wayne cannot complete his kill suggests that violence is not necessarily an inherent part of humanity, such as the state claims.
 The fact that Wayne feels bad for the stewbum demonstrates that he feels more for humanity than the Corporal accuses him of.  The fact that Wayne laughs during his chase with Red is paradoxical to the way he demonstrates empathy for his father.  -The fact that Wayne cannot complete his kill suggests that violence is not necessarily an inherent part of humanity, such as the state claims.  The fact that Wayne cannot complete his kills suggests that he will become like how mother, which is the opposite of what he wants for himself.