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    Missile Defense

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?

Read Debates, a new Web-only feature culled from Readers' Opinions, published every Thursday.


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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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