Re: WAR and Extropianism (was:My Blind Spot)

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 15:56:48 MST

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    Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
    >>(Artillo5@cs.com <Artillo5@cs.com>):
    >>
    >>My question for my fellow Extropians is this:
    >>Is war for any reason something an Extropian should be espousing????
    >
    >
    > What a silly question: of course we should. No rational person
    > can deny that violence is sometimes necessary, especially in defense
    > of life and liberty. And no Extropian would ever foreclose the
    > technological options open for its use based on some emotional
    > discomfort or dogmatic belief that war is always wrong.
    >
    > Of course, that still doesn't tell us much about whether to
    > advocate it in /this/ situation, where any claims of "defense"
    > are at best a stretch. But the idea that one should simply
    > never go to war is not one worth taking seriously.
    >

    Minor quibble but I believe it is important. Whether one,
    personally, should ever go to war or not is certainly a question
    very much worth taking seriously. Whether anyone at all should
    ever do so is a different question.

    - samantha



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