This is something I implore all to read.
It just makes such damn good sense.
Cheers,
- Miriam
At 11:38 PM 11/09/2001 -0700, mez wrote:
>I would submit that the most effective step against terrorism in the
>long run would be to reduce the amount of alienation and
>disenfranchisement throughout the world. Robert Wright wrote a good
>essay on this topic a year or two ago:
>
>http://slate.msn.com/Earthling/99-12-29/Earthling.asp
>
>From: Robert J. Bradbury [mailto:bradbury@aeiveos.com]
> > So, in memory of today's sad events I would like to challenge the
> > members of the Extropian community to think long and hard about
> > what ways might be used to create innovative solutions to
> > terrorism that would increase trustability and personal security
> > without imposing restrictions on freedoms (in other words, please,
> > please lets not make it a debate about guns).
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