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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a
nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a
"Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed
considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense
initiatives more successful? Can such an application of
science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable,
necessary or impossible?
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rshow55
- 10:12am Apr 6, 2003 EST (#
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Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click
"rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for
on this thread.
No, it was planned.
There was an ambiguity in my last posting.
The world should ask reality-checking
questions when people have "gone crazy."
Often enough, people do that - and
it is dangerous.
Two different antecedents. People "often" do ask "reality
checking questions" - and there are costs and dangers
involved.
But it is much more dangerous not to - and to keep at it
till some closure is established - because craziness
can be dangerous.
I think this is exactly right:
We'd be very close to a stable, peaceful
world if people would check facts when it mattered enough.
People wouldn't like each other so very often. But we could
get along, and do a lot better.
rshow55
- 10:13am Apr 6, 2003 EST (#
11165 of 11170)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click
"rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for
on this thread.
Almarst:
"I assumed (naively) that one of the
principles of Democracy is a rule of Law protecting the
rights of minorities and dissidents"
Like Saddam?
There are, to say the least - tensions here - especially
after September 11 - and the Treaty of Westphalia was a long
time ago.
almarst2003
- 10:17am Apr 6, 2003 EST (#
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BTW.
The "How do groups and societies deal with individuals
or much smaller groups that they regard as insane ?" is to
tally incorrect. As you must be perfectly aware, its the
"coalition of willing" that is regarded as a "small insane
group" by the overhelming majority of the World population.
And most people of the World are forced to think very
seriously how to deal with such a "small insane group" which
is also a military superpower.
almarst2003
- 10:19am Apr 6, 2003 EST (#
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Like Bush?
almarst2003
- 10:23am Apr 6, 2003 EST (#
11168 of 11170)
"Treaty of Westphalia was a long time ago"
The Roman Empire was even longer time ago. Since then we
observed Colonial Empires and Ideological Empires. The New
American Century one is an attempt to belnd them ALL.
rshow55
- 10:25am Apr 6, 2003 EST (#
11169 of 11170)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click
"rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for
on this thread.
We may be setting up some "shared space" !
A Communication Model http://www.worldtrans.org/TP/TP1/TP1-17.HTML
I think there are many things about the Bush administration
that are crazy enough. I've been arguing for a " forceful
intervention " on the subject of missile defense on this
thread - and doing so at length.
But that doesn't mean he's taking unreasonable positions in
the Middle East. Necessarily.
I don't think Tony Blair is crazy at all.
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We need patterns of exception handling that work
well enough - and it seems to me that they may be coming into
focus. Some things are being reframed - because they need to
be.
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