From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Tue Dec 15 1998 - 05:54:02 MST
Samael [Samael@dial.pipex.com] wrote:
>They want your country?
Which country? I'm an anarchist, not a statist, I don't have a country.
>Great. Have you seen the results fo the dresden Firbombs? The city was
>_gone_.
Uh-huh. So they destroyed a city which was built with no defence against
their attacks. Why should this have anything to do with the future where
cities are designed with defences, and/or where mobility is much easier?
You think they're going to send bombers out to firebomb EvMick's truck?
>You can't dodge them,
Not in a modern fixed house, perhaps. In a future mobile home I just start
up the engine and trundle off towards the next city. If I get stuck in a
traffic queue I set up my radar-guided hypervelocity railguns, dial up
Nuke-The-Bastards, Inc and pledge $1000 for the destruction of the capital
city of whichever country attacked us, then sit back and watch the fireworks.
>and unless you have your own personal shelter (of a damned high
>quality), yoiu're probably better off investing in anti-aircraft gear and
>your own fighter planes than anything else
Again, aircraft aren't the problem, bombs are the problem, and bombs can
be shot down.
>If you look like the sort of person who might pre-emptively nuke people,
>don't you think that everyone else might pre-emptively nuke you, for
>safeties sake?
And where are they going to find me and how are they going to know?
>Most fires threaten whole blocks. And will probably want to use a fire
>brigade to control the fire, as inividual's have neither the training nor
>the equipment to protect their own homes.
You're really stuck in the 20th century, you know. Hasn't it ever occured
to you that an anarcho-capitalist society might, like, be a little bit
different to a modern society?
Mark
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