From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Mon Oct 11 1999 - 00:27:39 MDT
To all you budding Solipsists out there, I want to make
you aware of the danger you may face in case of:
[1] an emergency like a a plane crash, a natural
disaster that disrupts all logistical systems, a riot;
[2] a state of total war, probably nuclear, in which all
social structures and institutions were destroyed;
[3] your imprisonment whether innocent or not in
many State and most Federal penitentiaries.
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You would immediately become aware that, under
these circumstances, many people would subscribe
to your Moral System. You would confront a terrifying
Hobbesian nightmare where, to your paralyzing dismay,
you were the prey in the middle of a circle of relentlessly
advancing human predators, whose prior socialization
enabled them to see the advantage, as wild dogs do,
of hunting in packs.
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Robert M. Owen
Director
The Orion Institute
57 W. Morgan Street
Brevard, NC 28712-3659 USA
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