[extropy-chat] how sleep deprivation skews perception

[Sean Diggins]

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Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] how sleep deprivation skews perception


--- 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.

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You really ARE a true libertarian Mike. No grey/gray areas for you. It's ALL
clear as day.
That last sentence....what a wonderful thing to be able to say that to the
mirror each morning.
I'm with you, Mike.  

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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.

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And you, as a wise, informed "Vice Chair" (still one rung to go eh?) have
personally witnessed this "backing by socialist/communist causes"?
But somehow, during your travels, you missed all the backing by manifestly
corrupt, cynical capitalist administrations of various western democracies?
Or the fact that a large proportion of your so called "third world thugs"
are actually stooges? 
And just which socialist/communist causes around the place today have
sufficient resources to be backing up thugs, despots and dictators?
Maybe Castro is their banker, eh?

Sooner or later, it all comes down to plundering. Who are the plunderers?
Communists?

Sheesh...and you tried to paint me as being bonkers.

I gotta say though, I like the new title to the thread. Certainly applied to
some of my previous posts.
You been awake too long also?

Sean