From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 22:57:57 MST
> On 2003.01.20, spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
>>Extropian friends, we don't know the answers either. spike
>
Dossy wrote:
> Given the choice between not knowing and knowing of our not knowing,
> I'd rather just not know. It's a lot more fun that way. -- Dossy
Right. The point of the non-sequitur about blind guitar
players was to urge us to assume the proper humility when
handling this difficult subject. This I ask of all sides.
Over the past several weeks, I have quietly listened to
opinions of neighbors, friends, officemates, the extropians,
etc. We have the usual collection of hawks, undecideds,
those who who went to the peace marches over the weekend,
etc. After I posted, Damien made a comment more eloquent
that I can manage, asking (paraphrase) if this is the best
that *smart* people can do, what will happen a few years down
the road when the world faces military nanotech, AI, etc.
Please let us take a step back and look at the big picture.
This conflict between the US, Iraq and North Korea is about
the development of nuclear weapons. In the long run, anyone
can see that if every hungry nation on earth has nukes, it
really is only a matter of time before they are used, and
all our fondest dreams go up in radioactive smoke.
In the big picture, and in the long run, do we not face
the necessity of somehow ridding the entire planet of all
nukes and all weapons of mass destruction? How, how, how
in the hell are we going to accomplish that?
spike
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