[extropy-chat] Seven cents an hour? (was: Riots in France)

[John K Clark]

"Brett Paatsch" <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au>

> You're the guy that thinks international law is pure farce as I recall

I don't quite see the connection with 7 cent an hour sweatshops but yes, I
do seem to recall saying something along those lines.

> because there is no force behind it.

Well, if policemen had no guns and no arms, or legs, and were blind and
deaf, and a burglar broke into your home, would you call the police of reach
for your gun?

>the reason there  is no force behind it is because at this stage in human
>history the force of  international law depends largely on the honour and
>intellect of you and  your countrymen.

Yes, things would be much more honorable and intelligent if the UN ran the
world, the organization that picked Libya (of Lockerbie fame) to run the
Human Rights Commission.

> Would you want to reanimate some smo who in the era of
> slavery spent  most  of his effort saying his slaves ought be
> delighted at their good  fortune

If he also had a practical workable plan that would eliminate slavery I
would pick him in a instant over a person who blubbered and cried and
flogged himself with whips to demonstrate to the world how profoundly he
hated slavery but who's advice was so incredibly mind numbingly stupid it
would actually strengthen that diabolical institution.

> Fuck John, you are not a bad guy. But so far as I can see you are not
> by any obvious criteria a good one (one that the future is likely to
> feel motivated to expend some positive effort to have around) either.

Face it, there is precious little reason a Jupiter Brain would bother
bringing anybody alive now back. Maybe we'd have a very tiny nostalgia value
to Mr. Jupiter, or maybe he'd do it just for laughs because it will either
be absolutely imposable or dirt cheap.

   John K Clark