[extropy-chat] so is America fascist yet?

[Erik Starck]

At 10:40 2005-01-30 Samantha Atkins wrote:
>It sure as hell isn't preemptive war.    Do you believe the US and thus 
>the citizens of the US, their fortunes, lives and those of their children 
>are owed to the suffering of every people on earth?

Of course not. This is a global issue and should be handled globally. 
Unfortunatley, it's not, or at least not global enough.

>Do you further believe that the "cure" takes the form of preemptive 
>strikes?

Calling the attack on Iraq "preemptive" wasn't the best of justifications 
for attacking from the coalition. It should really be enough to say that 
Saddam Hussein was a criminal with too much power, a massmurderer who 
prevented the country from developing and caused it's people to starve.

Of course, doing so was politically impossible at the time.

>if not then what is the point of your question?   Do you believe endless 
>war serves up maximum extropy?

I believe that freedom, trade and the free spreading of ideas between free 
minds are the best steps possible towards a transhuman future.

My question remains: what do you suggest should be done to prevent the 
genocide in Sudan or the famine in North Korea?

Remember, people are dying there NOW. Not doing anything or not acting fast 
enough is the same thing as letting these people die.


Erik