[extropy-chat] Recipe for Destruction

Joel Peter William Pitt joel.pitt at gmail.com
Wed Oct 19 01:01:25 UTC 2005


On 10/19/05, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Then the Manhatten Project if there is to one should be to connect the
> > minds of all humans so that the
> > underlying causes of sociopathic violence evaporate.
> >
> >
> There's that unspoken liberal assumption again - that if we truly
> understand the other person's POV then we will all get along fine.
> In my experience the opposite is just as likely - that the more we know of
> someone the more we dislike them.
>

No no, its not that. It is that if you are connected to everyone else - then
harming some one else is really harming yourself. So unless you are a
masochist you are more likely to try and find a solution that doesn't
involve violence.
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