[extropy-chat] Samantha, i read your message very carefully-- it is poignant, very important

[Dirk Bruere]

c c wrote:

>Responsibility in the context of this war? What
>responsibility do we armchair mind-warriors have?
>Intellectuals are thinkers, those risking their hides
>in the armed services are doers. And if you were to go
>to prison, just say- hypothetically- for refusing to
>register for conscription, you would be a doer as
>well. Or if you went to Iraq and protested the war
>there, that would be surely be taking responsibility.
>But what are we here risking? How are we responsible?
>What are any of us doing to resist this war? Aside
>from gestures and statements?
>
>  
>
Why did the US lose the Vietnam War?

-- 
Dirk

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