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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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lchic
- 08:11pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5089 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Empathy (4)
Pretty aged around 20, Bali's Jane Doe's last 30 hours of
life saw her adopted by a Perth Couple who help tend her
needs. Body XOX is still 'unclaimed'.
lchic
- 08:16pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5090 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Empathy (5)
Tom Keneally (Op-ED NYT) paraphrased
One thing we can do to honour the dead is to address
the root causes of what went wrong, and to develop better and
more sensitive policies.
We need to understand why perpertrators would consider the
world so unjust that they would be prepared to do this ... and
what are the sources of terrorist cosmologies.
lchic
- 08:21pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5091 of 17697) ultimately TRUTH outs : TRUTH has to
be morally forcing : build on TRUTH it's a strong
foundation
Empathy (6) brain
"" Neuroscientists searching for roots of empathy find
brain regions involved in learning by imitation
In a pair of pioneering studies, a French and American
team of social-cognitive neuroscientists have identified a
network of brain regions that are involved in human
imitation and specific brain areas that enable a person to
distinguish the self from others.
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Empathy - test [6]
http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/et/et-09-07.htm
rshow55
- 09:41pm Oct 20, 2002 EST (#
5092 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.
When Dr. Rice wrote this, I believe she wrote something
profound and hopeful.
" Today, the international community has
the best chance since the rise of the nation-state in the
seventeenth century to build a world where great powers
compete in peace instead of continually prepare for war. . .
. . . The United States will build on these common interests
to promote global security. "
" The National Security Strategy of the United
States ," http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/politics/20STEXT_FULL.html
. page 2.
The whole world hopes for that. But if hopes are to
solidify into reality - we need to communicate
effectively - - work enough things out between people and
powers so that they know enough to compete in peace.
That takes a lot of talking - negotiation of a shared
space - - communication good enough so that - when it
matters for practical affairs intended meanings and
percieved meanings match well enough to be safe.
A communication model http://www.worldtrans.org/TP/TP1/TP1-17.HTML
For us to find that shared space - and maintain it - and
know we have it -- - we need empathy.
Even for those we hate and fear.
Because we have things we have to communicate about.
And so "warm feelings" - at some levels - even if they are
just "conventional" or "polite" - - are very practical --
matters of life and death.
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