[extropy-chat] Re: A view of what politics is

Giu1i0 Pri5c0 pgptag at gmail.com
Sun Oct 16 06:56:59 UTC 2005


Hi Rafal,
No I don't remember this exchange. I don't read all messages. What did
you write?
I concede that I would not be surprised to see an article on the
extermination of political prisoners listed under the "Politics"
section of a journal, so it is politics in some sense.
Take my tentative definition as:
Good Politics = solving conflicts without using violence


On 10/16/05, Rafal Smigrodzki <rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/16/05, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Fundamental concepts are often the most difficult to define precisely.
> > I propose:
> > Politics = solving conflicts without using violence
>
>  ### You remember my exchange with that dude on wta, and you use the exact
> opposite of what I wrote!
>
>  Excellent. I only need to ask the same questions that stymied him:
>
>  Is the extermination of political prisoners not politics?
>  Is the trade in apples (resolving a conflict over who owns them) a form of
> politics?
>
>  Rafal



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