From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 09:33:58 MDT
--- Samantha Atkins <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> > ### Yes, this is a very cool idea - technology progressing so fast
> that
> > conflict is reduced to demonstrations of one's technological
> prowess, after
> > which everybody else gives up.
>
>
> So, technology makes right? The "conflict" does not have any
> more or less right parties, is or is not justified but is just a
> fact of nature effectively?
If you accept the premise that free nations will have a higher rate of
progress than non-free nations, then it is a given that the most free
nation on earth will, over time, develop the most technologically
advanced and devastatingly effective military power on earth. This is
evolution in action.
If you value freedom, then technological might DOES make right.
>
> If overwhelming military technology determined outcomes the US
> would still be a colonial territory. Conflicts are not resolved
> based on techology alone.
If all other factors are equal, they certainly do.
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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