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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 - 08:44pm Jan 1, 2003 EST (# 7203 of 7209)
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.

People wonder - "how can the biological world be SO orderly - and how can evolution have been SO fast?" People reject the idea that science doesn't seem to worry about what makes sense in human minds - but only refers to external evidence. People who have these concerns are asking very good, sensible questions. Current science hasn't answered them, and they are questions central to Plato's problem, at the core of philosophy. In both the historical evolution case, and the case of the evolution of ideas in our minds - it is crucial to see that order emerges as a matter of logic and structure.

Order, symmetry, and harmony are basic criteria. Whether you happen to believe in design, evolution, or a mix in a particular case.

People get in fights largely because they have difficulties understanding what it is to be a human being in ways that permit them to empathize with and communicate with people very different from themselves and others of their group. Some of the key issues involved are logical , and have been of concern to people since Greek times.

To fashion stable and humanly satisfactory international relations, we need to get clearer on these issues than we have been, and we can do so.

Adults need secrets, lies and fictions
To live within their contradictions . .
and that means that people have limitations, and problems working things out. It doesn't mean that they should kill each other. Or should be put in situations where they have to.

I'll be setting out some details tommorrow - in ways I think diplomats and other practical people can use. Moving slowly because I'm concerned with stability - but trying to be clear.

rshow55 - 08:44pm Jan 1, 2003 EST (# 7204 of 7209)
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.

U.S. Ties With Seoul Strained by Troop Presence and North Korea By STEVEN R. WEISMAN http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/01/international/asia/01CND-DIPL.html

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lunarchick - 09:07pm Jan 1, 2003 EST (# 7205 of 7209)

Negotiate

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zeus.uwindsor.ca/courses/business/ ghanam/71-340/OBChap10.ppt

placed in browser and well worth checking - gives

file:///C:/WINDOWS/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.IE5/30P0A8T5/256,1,Conflict, Power, & Negotiation

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