<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">>T<font>he strong taking advantage of the weak. Has it ever been any other way? Should it be any other way?</font></span><br><br><div>You literally said the strong SHOULD take advantage of the weak. I know they DO, but I don’t think they should.</div><div><br></div><div>SR Ballard</div><div><br>On Aug 30, 2019, at 11:39 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 11:00 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I like how you (bill w) say you don’t care if the strong take advantage of the weak. That really gave me hope for the kind of future that extropians are trying to build.<br><br><div>SR Ballard</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I never said I approved of it or did not care. Please read carefully. All I am saying that what's done is done and I didn't do it!!!. The dead are not my responsibility. Move on from here. You must know that the strong taking advantage of the weak is how it has always been, right? It's called evolution. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Would I like to see a world where everyone has the same advantages? Yes. But that will never happen unless we evolve from what we are. Or we modify ourselves with genetics. A lot.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br>On Aug 30, 2019, at 10:42 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Isn’t part of their (Native Americans, Hawaiians, descendants of chattel slavery) current conditions due to what happened to their ancestors?<br><br></span><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Yes, of course, and my ancestors are responsible for it. How far back in history do you want to go before the sins stop passing down? I say who did the crime, does the time, and we didn't do it. Every family that ever lived had something done to them in one way or another. Should we find and prosecute the descendants of the people who cut off the heads of kings? In my case you could help me go after AT and T!</font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Your attitude reminds me of a Scottish feud where the two clans are still fighting over something that happened in the 17th century.</font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">There was a country song, the Eagles maybe? It was titled "Get over it"</font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"> bill w</font></span></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 10:36 AM Dan TheBookMan via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">On Aug 30, 2019, at 7:39 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Thus, these</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">suggestions elide the stark power asymmetry between historically</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">disenfranchised and marginalized Native Hawaiians and the</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">billion-dollar, state-backed TMT project. bill k</span><br></div><div style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">T</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">he strong taking advantage of the weak. Has it ever been any other way? Should it be any other way?</font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Huh?</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Are we going to give back land </font></span><span style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">to the American Indians we drove them out of? Hah. Repay descendants of slaves? Double hah.</span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">We owe them nothing. They lost. I was born free of Original Sin or any other kind. I don't feel sorry of any</font></span></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">of them. I do feel sorry for their ancestors.</font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Isn’t part of their (Native Americans, Hawaiians, descendants of chattel slavery) current conditions due to what happened to their ancestors?<br><br></span><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height:normal"><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><span style="line-height:20px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height:normal"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" target="_blank">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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