On 28 Aug 2009 at 21:45, John Carl wrote: > Platt, > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 9:28 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > If you think that's true, you are one step away from tyranny where the > > tyrant or a tyranny of the majority decides what is "the good of the > > many." I hope under those circumstances that the decision to sacrifice > > someone for the "greater good" isn't you. > > > > Platt > > > > Perhaps you are right. Perhaps it is "one step away" as you claim. But that > is not an inevitable step and it's actually a big step that is easy to avoid > if you are informed and have sound method for avoiding that step. It's not > rocket science.
What sound method would you suggest to avoid that step? Obviously such method wasn't in place in pre-Lenin Russia, pre-Hitler Germany, pre-Castro Cuba and other dictatorships in recent history. Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
