<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Dylan Distasio </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:interzone@gmail.com" target="_blank">interzone@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>Hyperbole much on the Nuremberg comment?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">A man running for president whipping a mob into a frenzy chanting "LOCK HER UP!" doesn't chill your blood when the "her" in question is his political opponent? And a man </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">running for president<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> who says he will respect the results of the election only if he wins doesn't remand you of somebody who lived about 80 years ago? </div></span></font></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>And I still haven't heard a suggestion from you on how to alleviate that wealth gap that doesn't involve forced redistribution (I include taxation under this umbrella since it is conducted at the barrel of a gun).</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I think reducing the wealth gap is impossible without taxation, and </div>I agree that taxation is impossible without at least the shadow of a gun, and I think that is not compatible with<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>classical liberalism dogma<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>that I have believed in for <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">most</div> of my life<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">. </div>But I am even more certain that<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>the ever accelerating wealth gap is not compatible with the continuation of civilization. Therefore a choice must be made. I choose<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>civilization<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div>.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div></font></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">And I have to say, if we are going to have any hope of surviving the Singularity we're going to have to make bigger compromises that that. <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">That Singularity will change everything.</div> </font></div><font size="4"><br>John K Clark <br> </font><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>
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