--- Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Seeberger wrote:
> >
> >>>> "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good
> >>>> when one may have to back up his acts with his life."
> >>>> -Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond the Horizon, 1942
> >>
> >> This statemente is totally false. Just look at any
> >> armed society - like a slum, or an area under the
> >> control of a terrorist group - and check if people
> >> are polite there.
> >
> > Are you saying Texas isn't polite?
> >
> wfc? One example is enough to falsify Heinlein's
> statement. I gave two.
Once again exactly! That is exactly why I disagree with him (among other
issues more subtle) but you are in fact seeming to be in agreement that a
lack of power balance is a bad thing.
No one on this list (that I know of) was agreeing with Heinlein. The subject
of Heinlein cam up becouse some were mistaking a different argument for
Heinlein's.
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