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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Russell Wallace wrote:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> </FONT>Oppose international law, the United
Nations and anything that</DIV>
<DIV>> reduces world political disunity.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't doubt your sincerity here, nor that your
views are likely to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>be shared by some other posters, </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>but I </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>do wonder </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>if, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>or how, </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>you</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>or </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>anyone else would
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>reconcile such a </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>stance with </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>any </FONT><FONT
face=Arial size=2>philosophy</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>of extropy. [I took another look at the principles
of extropy around</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the open society section]</FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I wonder what theory of the origin and purpose of
law in society,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>if any, </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>you could
currently hold. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Your above statement doesn't seem to be a
statement that could</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>be </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>made
by s</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>omeone that had considered the notion of
the social </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>contract. Come to think of it I'm not sure I
picked up my </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>understanding </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>from
the original inventers of the social contract</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>writers either. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Were I to undertake to try to persuade you that
international </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>law is</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>not only good, but that were it not to exist
that its creation would</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>be the </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>highest
extropic imperative, I would probably do so </FONT><FONT face=Arial
size=2>from </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>principles of contract law. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brett Paatsch</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>