[extropy-chat] my country, right or wrong

Rik van Riel riel at surriel.com
Sat Dec 17 20:54:18 UTC 2005


On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Technotranscendence wrote:

> Nope.  You move to private militaries and then you can use technologies 
> like nuclear weapons in self-defense.

Private "militaries" have been nothing but trouble in countries
where they are common, eg. Somalia, Colombia, southern Russia.

Having too much power without checks and balances is bound to
lead to several cases of abuse...

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan



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