[extropy-chat] feeling more better

[Samantha Atkins]

On Jul 9, 2005, at 12:55 PM, c c wrote:

> Samantha, I dont know how to communicate with you as we both speak  
> the same language but I cannot express my difference of opinion  
> with you at all. It is as if I came from another planet. You write  
> as if I have taken a definite position on the war.

I wrote in response to the suggestion that a neutron bomb was some  
kind of solution to terrorism.   You are not the only one that has  
made such a suggestion.  I believe I must speak up at such times.


> Such is not the case, I don't know what is going on, and every time  
> I ask a dissident or conspiracy theorist for info on the secret  
> aspects of the allied war the inevitable reply is forthcoming, "do  
> your own research". It is so predictable, thereafter the personal  
> attacks start. But though I have severe doubts concerning the  
> allies, I have no respect for al qaeda or bin Laden whatsoever. I  
> see no intrinsic difference between the 'Werewolves' terrorists of  
> 1945-6 Germany and al qaeda, bin Laden is just a religious thug.  
> BTW if you don't like the designation 'terrorist' then substitute  
> 'freedom fighter', the name Islamo-militants call themselves or are  
> called means nothing. For starters you would have t! o fill me in  
> on grave allied secrets, which you can't do. We could start with a  
> morals discussion of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings of 60  
> years ago, but we would go nowhere, being intellectuals. Morality  
> aside, soldiers do; intellectuals perseverate.

Please reread what I wrote.  It goes far deeper than this so-called  
war and a personal interchange.   What I wrote is not about persons  
or personalities.  The above does not touch the fundamental thing I  
was attempting to bring out.

>
> >If I were to express my abhorrence in a similar way then I would wish
> >that you and those who agree with you would be at ground zero if such
> >a thing was done. But since I understand what you apparently miss I
> >would not wish that on you. What you are missing is that all "those.
> >people" are all potential immortals. Exactly why do they deserve to
> >miss eternity for some real or imagined stupidities of their
> >(relatively) *very* early childhood? We who have not learned yet to
> >truly understand indefinitely long life or understand its requisites
> >are willing to kill all too easily.
>
> - samantha
> >
>
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