From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 03:42:01 MDT
Loree Thomas wrote:
> --- Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
>
>>Are you actually attempting to ply that only fools
>>will practice
>>civil disobediance or otherwise risk jail or worse
>>for a
>>worthwhile cause? If you are, and if you are right,
>>then it
>>bodes quite ill for our cause indeed.
>>
>
> Unfortunately, you've separated this from what went on
> before... we were talking about extremists... people
> who do illegal activities (not people who practise
> civil disobedience) in the name of their cause...
> weirdos, nut cases... eco terrorists and their ilk.
>
> Not the majority of the WTO protesters, but the fools
> who looted starbucks... see the difference?
Sure, but this difference was not at all clear in the post I
responded to. Your statements seemed to be painted a bit more
broadly.
Looting Starbucks is not exactly "extremism" in my book though.
>
> I don't see extropian ideals as attracting those types
> of individuals or promoting those types of extreme
> actions... in fact they seem to me to be rather un
> extropian.
The phrase "extreme action" is a bit too broad also. It would
be helpful to narrow it down. A lot of the work and actins
necessary to make the world as we would like are quite "extreme"
but not in the sense of violence. If you mean violence then
please say so.
- samantha
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