From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Wed Apr 09 2003 - 10:24:33 MDT
> (Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com>):
>
> I don't see how it is remotely possible to create a world of
> both freedom and fairly full access to technology - which I
> believe requires greatly increasing the stake and buy-in and
> perception of benefit by most of the worlds people - by
> attacking them...
This is why we have a hard time taking many of you arguments
seriously, Samantha: while you are quick to make the distinction
between the American people and its government, you then totally
ignore that very distinction by implying that we are somehow
attacking the world's people instead of their governments.
Governments--all governments, ours included--are an enemy of
the Extropian future. Our government may or may not be justified
in waging war on some other government, but continuing to claim
or imply that that we are attacking the people under them is
dishonest and detracts from reasoned discourse.
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