From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 19:44:32 MDT
On Friday 01 August 2003 15:07, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> Just for the record, according to the CIA world fact book,
> the North Korean "Military expenditures percent of GDP"
> were 31%
> Contrast this with the U.S. (3.2%), the U.K. (2.3%) or
> AU (2%).
>
> So I would like to ask people on the list -- "Just what part
> of the North Korean perspective isn't clear to you?"
>
Just what part of proposed mass murder being wrong and unextropic is not clear
to you?
30% of what is the critical question being glossed over. The US 3.2% amounts
to around $400 billion.
> This gets back to the discussion of *when* you see a "Hitler"
> arising and what one does about that.
>
Man! I thought bringing up "Hitler" to boost arguments was considered
verbotten hereabouts.
> So what I would ask is "how many sacrificed lives does one
> allow before one says that is "too much" from an extropic
> perspective?"
>
> Or in other terms -- "How far does one let North Korea
> (with a large population of "programmed" drones) go?"
>
> And this is not too different from related questions
> I might pose about other countries.
If the fired one nuke at some other country I would have no great problem with
a very strong response, possibly in kind. But I won't for a second consider
preemptively nuking 22 million people out of existence.
- samantha
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