[extropy-chat] how sleep deprivation skews perception

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:

> > Damien Broderick
> 
> > ... But since the populations of the `underdeveloped' parts 
> > of the world are larger and growing faster than the rich remainder,
> > I suspect that at least the *proportion* without running water
might
> > be *increasing*...
> > 
> 
> Hard to say about the proportion, but the absolute number
> of humans without running water is surely increasing.
> We see this as a great tragedy, but until fairly recently
> in history, no one had running water.  Humanity somehow
> dealt with it.

As I've said before: if a nation fails to develop (running water, among
other things) it is because that nation fails to or refuses to
establish institutions that protect private property rights. It is no
fault of ours.

Third world thugs would rather spend their meager resources, and
whatever aid they can beg, borrow, or steal, for weaponry and more
thuggish underlings, to subject their citizens and expand their
tyranny. Typically this is with the assistance of so-called
'liberation' forces backed by socialist/communist causes.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=Sadomikeyism


		
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