[extropy-chat] ray gun

[Dirk Bruere]

On 2/2/06, starman2100 at cableone.net <starman2100 at cableone.net> wrote:
>
> Spike wrote:
> >Some futurey person please comment on this.
>
> "Futurey?"  Why Spike, you just coined a new transhumanist term!  I will
> found in your honor, "The Institute for Futurey Studies!" or perhaps, "The
> Society for Futurey People!" :  )
>
> >This would be a wonderful twist on Alfred Nobel's peace
> >dream: war becomes impractical not because technology makes war
> >too dangerous, but rather because technology makes war safe for
> >humans but dangerous for the war machines. Without the
> >machines of war, the actual soldiers are as harmless as
> >kittens.
>
> Harmless as kittens? lol  A disarmed but well-trained soldier can
> still take life, but doing it the "old-fashioned way" with his own bare
> hands.  I will admit that when this soldier faces *armed* forces he will be
> in deep trouble.
>
>
The biggest one-day slaughter in Human history was done with swords and
spears, not guns or nukes.

Dirk
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