From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2003 - 15:56:48 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>>(Artillo5@cs.com <Artillo5@cs.com>):
>>
>>My question for my fellow Extropians is this:
>>Is war for any reason something an Extropian should be espousing????
>
>
> What a silly question: of course we should. No rational person
> can deny that violence is sometimes necessary, especially in defense
> of life and liberty. And no Extropian would ever foreclose the
> technological options open for its use based on some emotional
> discomfort or dogmatic belief that war is always wrong.
>
> Of course, that still doesn't tell us much about whether to
> advocate it in /this/ situation, where any claims of "defense"
> are at best a stretch. But the idea that one should simply
> never go to war is not one worth taking seriously.
>
Minor quibble but I believe it is important. Whether one,
personally, should ever go to war or not is certainly a question
very much worth taking seriously. Whether anyone at all should
ever do so is a different question.
- samantha
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