 Lowndes further argued that the Terran Federation could never be as idealistic as Heinlein portrays it to be because he never properly addressed "whether or not [non-citizens] have at least as full a measure of civil redress against official injustice as we have today".Farmer agreed, arguing that a "world ruled by veterans would be as mismanaged, graft-ridden, and insane as one ruled by men who had never gotten near the odor of blood and guts".Authors and commentators have stated that the manner in which the extraterrestrial beings are portrayed in "Starship Troopers" has racist aspects, arguing that the nicknames "Bugs" and "Skinnies" carry racial overtones.