From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Wed Sep 12 2001 - 23:43:48 MDT
On Wednesday, September 12, 2001 6:26 PM Jerry Mitchell
jmitch12@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> You don't hear the veterans of WW2 backpedaling on protecting our country.
A lot of those people were drafted, so they really didn't go willingly.
Recall also the limitations of freedom at that time. I'm not talking about
having lights on and stuff like that, but limits on criticizing the
government.
Plus, it's quite clear FDR manipulated the nation into war and then made
that war a total one by calling for nothing less unconditional surrender.
The result was not freedom but forty years of Cold War with the world
divided between two nuclear armed camps wherein fully one third of the
planet was under the sway of communist dictatorship and the rest was mostly
authoritarian. Kind of like saving people from cholera by giving them
typhoid.
War is the health of the state, as someone once said.
> They know the price of freedom. The only way to make sure terrorist are
> eradicated is to make sure theres no country for them to hide in. Those
> countries now hiding terrorist are as guilty as the people flying the
plane.
> Bomb their entire countries dust.
With that logic, why not exterminate the species -- or lop a few asteroids
at the Earth. Surely, if there's no life, there's no terrorism! That's
thinking exactly like many of the terrorists and their bedfellows.
Extropians, transhumanists, and freedom lovers should have a more sober,
rational response ready. We should not become animals to fight off animals.
Later!
Daniel Ust
See "Knowledge is Power" at:
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/IP1_Know.html
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