From: John Heritage (xebec@home.com)
Date: Fri Jul 10 1998 - 06:05:23 MDT
>The bottom line: I think guns are low-tech, old-style tools. They are not
>futuristic, intelligent technology. Guns destroy someone else's future
options
>to limit their potential. (Hopefully because that person's future plans are
>deemed to be "bad".) They do not create options or expand future options.
>Guns are only useful in negative situations that are not progressing in an
>extropian-desireable manner.
Well, when you define guns, I guess you are defining them as conventional
old style weapons that shoot physical projectiles.. Is an Ion Cannon that
destroys an incoming asteroid that could destroy our planet earth a low
tech old style tool/gun, or a high tech useful gun ? .. those are the
kinds of useful weapons I was referring to that can be categorized as a
"gun"..
If you are referring to handguns or handweapons, your message was, in it's
entirity, correct...
John
[The Human Mind Is Capable Of Solving The Problem Of The Human Mind]
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