From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 02:13:11 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>>(Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>):
>>
>>Do you care that you are alive as a lawless bully that very well
>>may have just killed other people for no reason whatsoever? Is
>>that life of the kind you want to live?
>
>
> If the alternative is death, I'd say that's a pretty stupid
> question. It's nice when circumstances offer you a third choice
> of being both alive and perceived as a nice guy. But sometimes
> the world doesn't give you that choice, and it's naive and
> irresponsible to pretend that it does.
>
It is not "being perceived as a nice guy" it is being a
reasonable well-adjusted human being rather than a paranoid that
believes it justifiable to kill any who might conceivably be a
threat. It is roughly the difference between civilization and
the jungle. Also, I do not believe for a minute that we can
hold such preemptive use of deadly force attitudes and survive
even the level of technology we already have much less what is
on the way.
Lastly, if the choice is between such preemptive nastiness and
death I would rather be dead. Fortunately, far more choices
exist. The world is not needed to "give us that choice". We
have the power to make such choices. Saying we do not and that
the world has forced us to such is a huge copout.
- samantha
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