From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 12:22:13 MST
Resending, because I sent from the wrong address. :) Don't know if
the other one will go through.
John K Clark wrote:
> As I said before I don't know if the coming war is a good idea or not but I
> have made 3 conclusions:
>
> 1) It will be very difficult to take anything Tim May says seriously in the
> future, and that makes me a little sad because at one time he had some
> pretty good ideas. The man has gone nuts.
Agreed. Or playing in a game in which his own cred is not worth much to
him.
> 2) The lunatic fringe of the anti war movement is far crazier than the
> lunatic fringe of the pro war movement.
>
> 3) It's counterintuitive but for some strange reason the war supporters seem
> like nicer people that the anti war crowd; that doesn't mean they're right
> of course.
I think these things are a result of the views held, rather than the people that
hold them. After all, it seems certain that there *will* be a war soon.
A war supporter would believe that the world is going to be a safer
place shortly, and more stable. If that weren't the case, they wouldn't, in
most
cases, be war supporters. For those who are anti-war, however, the world
is quickly becoming a more dangerous place, and less stable.
People who feel safer and in control are likely to act like nicer people than
those who think that things are getting worse and who fear the outcome of
likely events. That shrill tone and those outrageous statements you hear
from the anti-war crowd are a symptom of fear, which follows quite closely
on having the view that the coming war will make things worse.
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> 'Institute regime change everywhere... to "None of the above."' -- Alex Future Bokov
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