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From: smith@SCTC.COM (Rick Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.society
Subject: Re: Computer Science jobs without military connections
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Date: 25 Feb 91 21:59:30 GMT
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Erik J Fretheim writes:

> The only way, (and I repeat only) way to work against war is to 
> alleviate those social conditions which place people in the condition 
> where they feel they have nothing to lose by fighting.

Right on! And the same is true for crime.

However, I don't propose we scrap all police forces and rely on everyone's
social consciousness to maintain civic peace and safety. There is an
analogy to this concerning the place of the military (and it is independent
of the issue of what *ours* of the Coalition are up to at this exact moment).

But then this is getting away from comp.society.

To get back to the opening comment, can computer technology help?
Do databases help? Improved communication? Computer aided education?
Or are they all smoke we throw up to avoid confronting the real,
personal, social problems that require us to think, act, and *change*?

Rick


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