[extropy-chat] Nuke the Great Satan

[kevinfreels.com]

I wasn't finished....
Are you suggesting that we should only defend our borders after we have been
attacked?
Should we wait until the first jet drops it's bombs before we fire on a
squadron?
Do we wait until AFTER a nuclear terrorist attack kills tens of thousands
before we start protecting our borders?

In other words....do you, in your infinite intelligence have an alternative
that will be as effective at preventing the lives of hundreds of thousands
of citizens from being lost in such an attack?

Or are you the type to wait until after the attack and then complain that
the administration didn;t do enough?




> So you don;t see the difference between jaywalking and illegally crossing
a
> sovereign country's border?
> It's all the same? A law is a law is a law? Shoplifting = murder?
> Are you proposing that by breaking a law to enter a country a person is
> therefore protected by the laws of that country?
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jeff Medina" <analyticphilosophy at gmail.com>
> To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 9:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Nuke the Great Satan
>
>
> > On 9/19/05, kevinfreels.com <kevin at kevinfreels.com> wrote:
> > > This is exactly why we need to be shooting people as they enter the
> country
> > > illegally. I know it doesn;t seem very extropian, but if people were
> being
> > > shot, I doubt as many would be trying to cross. There's legal ways
into
> this
> > > country.
> >
> > Let's shoot people for speeding and jaywalking. Let's chop off the
> > hands of shoplifters, too. Let's stone queers in the public square.
> > There are legal ways to drive and cross streets and acquire goods and
> > get married, right?
> >
> > And I know it doesn't seem very extropian, but let's set the ignorant
> > on fire, too. If the ignorant were burned at the stake, I doubt as
> > many suggestions like this one would be passed around.
> >
> > -- 
> > Jeff Medina
> > http://www.painfullyclear.com/
> >
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