13- Lincoln's lessons
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Tech Central Station
by Duane D. Freese
"But as the ancestors of slaves and children of Holocaust
survivors know, an aversion to war can pave the way to a
crueler despotism. Their pain doesn't fit neatly on a
bumper sticker." (3/5/03)
http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/defensewrapper.jsp?PID=1051-350&CID=1051-030503C
Lincoln's Lessons
By Duane D. Freese 03/05/2003
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"War is not the answer." So reads a sign posted at an entry to I-66 on the outskirts of Washington.
student of philosophy, science, skepticism, politics. Libertarian*, Physicist, Inventor, Eudaimonist, Extropian www.matus1976.com
Wednesday, March 05, 2003
(A pretty lame rebuttal to the 'top ten pro war arguments' conspicuously absent from these 'top ten' are 1) Saddam is a murderous tyrant and has killed ~400,000 of his own people 2) Saddam is a murderous Tyrant that controls the worlds second largest energy supply and uses it for, surprise, murder and tyranny and 3) no one is free unless everyone is free, corrupt murderous tyrants need to go ASAP. Included, however are arguments such as (which I have never heard) 1) A War Will Save the US Economy 2) Because We're Already There. Funny how some of the best pro war arguments are left out, but some of the lamest are included. - Mike)
Top ten bogus justifications for the Iraqi war
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Antiwar.com
by Christopher Deliso
"[T]oppling the flimsy foundations on which the pro-war
edifice rests is not a very difficult matter. While the
War Party's fraudulent justifications for war are
myriad, debunking the top ten will suffice." (3/5/03)
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso69.html
Top ten bogus justifications for the Iraqi war
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Antiwar.com
by Christopher Deliso
"[T]oppling the flimsy foundations on which the pro-war
edifice rests is not a very difficult matter. While the
War Party's fraudulent justifications for war are
myriad, debunking the top ten will suffice." (3/5/03)
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/deliso69.html
30) Real environmental racism
Reason
by Ronald Bailey
"That the world's poor breed environmental destruction is a
disturbing, and possibly racist, tenet propounded by many prominent
ideological environmentalists. ... the issue is not that the poor
breed too much. The issue is that they are poor. Ehrlich and other
would-be population controllers have confused poverty with
overpopulation." (03/05/03)
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb030503.shtml
Reason
by Ronald Bailey
"That the world's poor breed environmental destruction is a
disturbing, and possibly racist, tenet propounded by many prominent
ideological environmentalists. ... the issue is not that the poor
breed too much. The issue is that they are poor. Ehrlich and other
would-be population controllers have confused poverty with
overpopulation." (03/05/03)
http://www.reason.com/rb/rb030503.shtml
10) Time to throw out "myth" of recycling
London Daily Telegraph/Washington Times
"Throw away the green and blue bags and forget those trips to return
bottles -- recycling household waste is a load of, well, rubbish, say
leading environmentalists and waste campaigners. In a reversal of
decades-old wisdom, they argue that burning cardboard, plastics and
food leftovers is better for the environment and the economy than
recycling." (03/04/03)
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030304-94642203.htm
London Daily Telegraph/Washington Times
"Throw away the green and blue bags and forget those trips to return
bottles -- recycling household waste is a load of, well, rubbish, say
leading environmentalists and waste campaigners. In a reversal of
decades-old wisdom, they argue that burning cardboard, plastics and
food leftovers is better for the environment and the economy than
recycling." (03/04/03)
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20030304-94642203.htm
A testament to the limitations of 'Public opinion' 36 percent of russians think Stalin did 'more good than harm' I wonder how the 15 million dead would have swayed that tally? - Mike
5) An unflinching look at Stalin 50 years later
Moscow Times
"While in the West, Stalin is seen simply as a monstrous dictator,
the view in Russia remains divided, as a survey by the Public Opinion
Foundation showed last month. Thirty-six percent of those polled said
Stalin did more good than bad for the country, 29 percent said the
opposite and the rest were unsure, Interfax reported." (03/05/03)
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/03/05/003.html
5) An unflinching look at Stalin 50 years later
Moscow Times
"While in the West, Stalin is seen simply as a monstrous dictator,
the view in Russia remains divided, as a survey by the Public Opinion
Foundation showed last month. Thirty-six percent of those polled said
Stalin did more good than bad for the country, 29 percent said the
opposite and the rest were unsure, Interfax reported." (03/05/03)
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/03/05/003.html
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Good article on lifesharers program.
from - http://www.rationalreview.com/archive/tlknapp/tlknapp030303.html
Excerpt - "But if someone dies waiting for a kidney because Mark Fox and Jeffrey Kahn are all enamored of The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals? No problem. How about 6,000 people a year? Same-same; they're only numbers. And if Joe Sixpack takes his corneas into the ground with him because Mark Fox and Jeffrey Kahn consider it "unethical" to give him any reason not to? De nada."
Perhaps combining the excellent life sharers program with a system of financial reward which merely moves the waiting list faster (In other words, if I am rich and I need an organ, any money I put into some pool to pay donors would merely move the list faster) would be passable to the general public, though certainly not with these 'ethicists'
from - http://www.rationalreview.com/archive/tlknapp/tlknapp030303.html
Excerpt - "But if someone dies waiting for a kidney because Mark Fox and Jeffrey Kahn are all enamored of The Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals? No problem. How about 6,000 people a year? Same-same; they're only numbers. And if Joe Sixpack takes his corneas into the ground with him because Mark Fox and Jeffrey Kahn consider it "unethical" to give him any reason not to? De nada."
Perhaps combining the excellent life sharers program with a system of financial reward which merely moves the waiting list faster (In other words, if I am rich and I need an organ, any money I put into some pool to pay donors would merely move the list faster) would be passable to the general public, though certainly not with these 'ethicists'
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