From: michaelroyames@hotmail.com
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 07:57:57 MDT
Lee wrote:
> Eliezer writes
>
> > What should we do if Manhattan gets nuked? Well, medical care
> > for the victims would be a good start.
>
> This evasion of the central question is out of character for you, Eliezer.
>
Evasion? Hardly. I thought Eliezer's reply was right to the point. It
was certainly more compassionate than others of the 'who should we attack?'
variety. Perhaps you are assuming everyone has to take an 'us vs. them'
attitude, before responding to an attack? This is a ubiquitous human
assumsion, and I cannot fault you for it. But couldn't we move beyond that
adversarial mindset? I consider the problem of 'nuclear threat' to be, not
us vs. them, but us vs. us - a species at war with itself. As a rational
thinker, my response to an attack *may* be identical from either POV, but I
suspect it would be quite different.
Michael Roy Ames
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