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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
- 09:08am Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5083 of 17697) 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.
This is important.
Iraq Announces Amnesty for Its Prisoners By THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:32 a.m. ET http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Iraq.html
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The Iraqi government
announced an amnesty Sunday for all Iraqi prisoners
lchic
- 02:18pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5084 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
^ does this guy have spam three meals a day?
lchic
- 02:27pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5085 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
EU NICEtreaty Ireland
"" Ireland opened the door today to the EU for nearly a
hundred million Eastern Europeans by voting to endorse the
Nice Treaty at the second attempt. Millions who used to live
under communism before 1989 from the Baltic to the Black Sea
now have the right to join one of the richest clubs on the
planet. Approval by the Irish has cleared the last roadblock
to their ambitions to enter the EU.
Romano Prodi, the European Commission President, said
Ireland had given a "green light" to EU enlargement.
http://www.observer.co.uk/europe/story/0,11363,815799,00.html
lchic
- 07:50pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5086 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Empathy (1)
n : understanding and entering into another's feelings
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=empathy%20
Emapthy Nussbaum
"Thinking, Feeling, and Moral Imagination;" Martha C.
Nussbaum
To illustrate her point, Professor Nussbaum convincingly
demonstrates the positive role empathy played in two cases
resulting in opinions she fairly described
Spiegelman's MAUS, a comic-book genre depiction of his
father's survival of Nazi Germany, produces the Aristotelian
version of empathy advocated by Nussbaum
Nussbaum ... celebrates "the value of humanity as an end
in itself," she encourages empathy ...
lchic
- 08:02pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5087 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Empathy (2)
1942 10/21 diary entry of Donald Friend (later
official Australian WWII war artist)
On the Nazi enemy ......
"" I can't accept it.
How can one kill personally and passionately a creature who
is so much the victim of calculated, aggressive conditioning?
Certainly, his extermination (or conversion) is an
obvious necessity, but I do not understand how a thinking
creature could do it in hot blood.
As I see it, these enemies must be exterminated but not as
human creatures knowingly possessed of an evil will, but as a
horde deluded with an antisocial creed and therefore
dangerous.
But to talk that passionate unthinking way about it -- or
worse to believe that way -- is to deny all our claim to
civilisation.
I am willing to kill - but with regret.
I am not willing to hate, since there is no person to
hate, but only a force of mad belief behind thos millions of
persons whom we fight.
I can't think why I should be bothered to wrangle with
myself on this subject; the fact is, I am somewhat shickered
and it is too early to go t bed and too late to go the
pricutes or the camp concert. Diaries of Donald
Friend v1 (Australian National Library)
lchic
- 08:05pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5088 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Empathy (3)
Moderate Muslim leaders ask Sydney Islamic youth to remove
'sensitive' materials from their site - they (YOUTH) don't
comply
www.islam.org.au
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