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From: braddy@houxl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: The Draft
Message-ID: <113@houxl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Aug-83 12:08:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 23 12:08:56 1983
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I agree with some points in hou5e!mat's long and hot flame
but there is a hopeless premise behind it that must be addressed.
*>  Self defense is one thing: I don't have any wives or daughters
    and I'd still shoot you if I you try to plunder my home and kill me.
*>  The aggression that must precede self defense is entirely another:
    IF we would *all* just do it, we (humans) could abolish war.
    There is no intrinsic reason why we must have wars.
==> I read hou5e!mat's flame to assume that because we now have war
    we will always have war. Necessarily and with out question. Forever.
    That's scary.
    We took a long time to reach this state of affairs on this planet and
    it's probably too simple to announce "let's abolish war".
    Until ...mat and such ilk reject the premise that
    we COULD live without war, the most clever of solutions will only
    be symptomatic and the problem will remain.

	"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, you get to keep them."
	                     -- from "Illusions", but I forget the author.
David..