From: Anton Sherwood (dasher@netcom.com)
Date: Tue Sep 16 1997 - 23:22:45 MDT
Eliezer writes
: If you want my recommendation on the genocide problem, here it is:
:
: If people knew what was going on, if they could see videos of children
: being cut in half by gunfire instead of reading about "ethnic strife",
: there would be enough popular support to send in enough troops to solve
: the problem.
I'd be more sanguine about that if "sending in the troops"
had a better record. Politicians do the sending, after all.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I wrote:
: And I'm not sure that the Weavers actually *hated* Blacks; one
: might have other (crackpot) reasons for believing that God wants
: the races to be separated. But one can't expect an ordinary person
: like Harlan Ellison to grasp such a subtlety.
I left something out. The Weavers, as far as I know, did not
advocate forcible separation of the races (that's a lost cause).
They just separated themselves, taking a voluntary action
at great inconvenience to themselves. But one can't expect a
statist like Harlan Ellison to grasp the distinction between
adopting a solution for oneself and forcing it on others.
: Er, excuse me, I seem to have pushed my own button.
Have I finished now? I think so.
Anton Sherwood *\\* +1 415 267 0685 *\\* DASher@netcom.com
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