From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 08:49:18 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>> (The Palestinians
>> and Israelis are trying to start the next world war...as many here
>> have chosen one side or the other. Dont give in to that.)
>>
>
> You must be joking.
I wish it were a laughing matter. I prefer those matters.
> Israel has acted in ways that we and the UN would jump all over if
> it was any other country (other than ourselves). But that conflict is
> incapable of starting a world war. At least it is highly unlikely.
You have more confidence than I do regarding world peace.
>
> Best of all, in my humble opinion, is to master enough of the messy
> human stuff
It looks a lot easier to me to set up a long term space colony than to
get all of humanity to live in peace long term.
> to greatly lower the odds of massive terrorism or uncontained regional
> blow-ups in the first place and to raise the odds of a lot of people
> on your side who act as buffers, detectors and exact swift avengers if
> such an act is committed. I don't think running away is the answer
> here. - samantha
Of course I see it more as "getting started" than running away.
This galaxy is evidently empty of advanced life, so it is ours, but
we need to go get it. Lets go get it. spike
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