From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Mon Feb 17 2003 - 18:20:27 MST
> What's good about defending a country? I certainly don't give a damn
> about the US or any other country, and I have little patience for
> patriots of any stripe. How about standing up for /principles/
> instead of countries like a rational forward-looking person should?
> The old concept of "country" is one whose time is passed. Let's move
> into the future and support the rights of sovereign sentient beings.
>
> --
> Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein
> and past,
> are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used
> or modified
> for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or
> notification."--LDC
That's all well and good, but nations are key in these affairs. There is a
fundamental issue of representation (or lack thereof), in aggression between
nations, because the citizens of any given nation are not represented by
other nation's governments. Thus the concept of democracy breaks down in
these issues of world governance (a euphemism which grants the benefit of
the doubt to the involved parties). I believe that this issue is at the
heart of much of the world's problem with the concept of anyone playing
"World Policeman" (again a favourable euphemism).
So IMO the main issue in the Iraq situation is that of domination of the
majority by the minority. Even domination of the minority by the majority
would be a problematic situation. The principle involved is Freedom, and
it's worth jumping up and down about.
I think LDC is not a big fan of nations, and I certainly agree with him on
that one. Ignoring them is not an option, however, and declaring them
dinosaurs wont stop me becoming T-Rex breakfast.
Emlyn
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