[extropy-chat] POLITICS: terrorism and strategies

[Matus]

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> bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Reason
> 
> My 2c addition to this thread is to point out that the only moral way
> forward is the libertarian one: to lead by example in the company of
those
> who want to help. You don't win friends and help to make a better
world by
> threatening and demonstrating that you can tear things down (literally
or
> figuratively). To make a better world, you get on with building: those
who
> want to build - the vast majority of humanity - will join you. Those
who
> don't wish to build are marginalized in every possible way by this
> strategy.
> 
> To oppose something is to strengthen it. Ignore it in favor of living
a
> better life and it has no more power.
> 
> Reason
> Founder, Longevity Meme
> 

While your solution seems admirable, I don't think it's the best
solution.  Consider the questions it poses.  Does a libertarian nation
continue to trade with these countries?  In doing so it helps to support
the governments that may be dictatorial, murderous, or sponsoring of
terrorism.  Yet if it does nothing, the millions of people living in
those shitty countries will continue to be oppressed brutally, many tens
of thousands dying.  Is it moral to sit back and do nothing while thugs
murder people because those thugs call the area they happen to have more
guns in the place they call a 'country'?   

The people who live in Burma, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos,
etc. live in the most brutal conditions in the world, and you advocate
'ignoring' them as the way to deal with it?

Michael