Re: Armed to the Teeth, and Free by Stephen P. Halbrook
Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:43:49 -0500
Date sent: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:21:15 -0700
From: Cynthia <cyn386@flash.net>
To: extropians@extropy.com
Subject: Re: Armed to the Teeth, and Free by Stephen P. Halbrook
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> > Didn't the Germans try that, too? I guess that eugenics is a
> > flexible science, and one is able to choose who is defective, even
> > whole groups, arbitrarily.
>
> Under different conditions, different kinds of people end up successfully reproducing
> than others. If the king executes violent thugs, if fathers don't allow young men who
> don't have respectable jobs to get near their daughters, and if trouble makers are
> burnt out of their homes in the middle of winter and end up freezing to death; then it
> is going to have a certain effect on the long term genetic pool.
>
> > I guess that some people must be unfree for all the free ones to be
> > armed to the teeth. In prison or an asylum, or packing. Black or
> > white. No middle ground.
>
> Insane violent thugs belong in prison.
>
They certainly don't warrant legal possession of a firearm.