Re: THREAT ASSESSMENT, was Re: some U.S. observations and notes

From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Mon Dec 31 2001 - 05:53:14 MST


|> Now, feel free to state your comments. "The audience is listening."
|
|Because some creatures are too irrational to be trusted with so
|much as an icepick doesn't mean that all beings are to be
|forbidden what in the hands of the utterly irrational and
|irresponsible is dangerous. The assumption that no citizen
|should have what every citizen cannot be entrusted with is quite
|questionable. The assumption that only citizens who have become
|part of the government should have what most citizens are not to
|be trusted with is also very questionable.

Who gets to decide who "are too irrational", then, I wonder.

A citizen, you write. So the local power mongers (''the Government'')
shall bludgeon all others to do their bidding, in your world model?
And the non-citizens become their slaves, I surmise.



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