Re: Yeah, guns and guns and guns and guns

Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:07:15 -0500

Date sent:      	Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:17:07 -0400
From:           	"Michael S. Lorrey" <mike@lorrey.com>
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To:             	extropians@extropy.com
Subject:        	Re: Yeah, guns and guns and guns and guns
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> "Eliezer S. Yudkowsky" wrote:
>
> > Eugene Leitl wrote:
> > >
> > > Do you think anybody is still listening?
> >
> > No. I've been deleting everything. I think that at this point we
> > should Ban the following topics, except for brief announcements of bad laws.
> >
> > 1. Guns.
> > 2. Politics.
> >
> > Extropianism is about ultratechnology, whether the Principles say so or
> > not - just as science fiction is about advanced technology. We need to
> > crack down decisively on those topics that aren't about technology at all.
>
> I'm all for it, so long as the opposing side does too. I try to never initiate
> these things, but to permit unanswered inanities from the controller's side on a
> list that is purportedly of libertarian bent is inconcionable.
>
> BTW: Guns are, in fact, technology. Not politically correct technology, but
> technology nontheless. Those that tolerate supression of such a mundane
> technology like guns cannot cry and whine when the really usefull technologies
> get banned by the same tyrants. When evil men conspire, free men must associate.
>
And i categorically refuse to listen to the extreme scream without juxtaposing the mainstream sensible center's voice of reason beside it.
> Mike Lorrey
>
>