Is the game manager a member of the herd? If not, what is he? If he is,
and minimizing the aggregate suffering of the herd involves culling,
does he cull himself? Logically yes and actually no? Is this not the
reappearance of what might be termed the fascist fallacy?
regards,
mark measday
Jay
To the List.
I've especially enjoyed this little bit of self love going in this list.
I've not encountered it before on this list and it gives me hope for the
future even if the options thus far seem to be "Blade Runner" or "Road
Warrior." At one point I was especially impressed with
all of the
Jay Hanson wrote:
1. Draw your devastating conclusions from the experience
of the inperfect democracies we had so far.
I draw my conclusions from the millions of years of human behavior -- under
every kind of society that has existed.
Classical Athens, Heian Kyoto, Khajuraho [Medieval
From: Tor Forde [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Human in modern societies have become TOTALLY DEPENDENT on their
machines.
These machines are going to "run out of gas" this coming century --
forever.
That does not have to be a catastrophe.
Norway was "out of gas" the years 1940-45, and that was not a big
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. Draw your devastating conclusions from the experience
of the inperfect democracies we had so far.
I draw my conclusions from the millions of years of human behavior --
under
every kind of society that has existed.
Classical Athens, Heian
Tom Walker quoted WF Hixson:
"The really important lesson of what happened between 1939 and 1946
is completely lost when economists repeatedly make statements that
imply, or at least leave the reader free to infer, that the war was a
necessary condition if the depression was to end.
I've
