From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 02:43:21 MDT
It appears as if Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net> wrote:
|
|During this whole episode, I have heard blame-the-victim memes
|and every time it has caused me much distress. But there is one
|thing we have been guilty of as a society: we have failed to use
|all our technology to reduce our vulnerability to such attacks.
|The Chicagoans of 1871 did not sit around plotting revenge on Mrs.
|O'Leary's cow. They did not form up a mob to destroy all of
|cattledom. They thought of ways to supress fires.
|
|We can do this! We *can* make a society faaar more grand
|than any we have imagined today, but we must figure out how
|to protect ourselves from those who will oppose and destroy.
Well put, sir!
Do you have any suggestions on how to proceed?
/kpj
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