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Skriven 2010-02-08 00:36:50 av JOHNJWILSON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av SCOTT LITTLE
Ärende:  Just ice  for me 
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->  [ On 2010-02-06 at 20:29:32, JOHNJWILSON wrote to SCOTT LITTLE ]
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->  JO> immoral. -> America will become (small) armed, shortly. Totally.
'Self
->  JO> defence' will loom large.

Who's the jerk who wrote THAT? Oh.
. 
-> ...the 9/11
-> hijackers would have succeeded even with nothing but foul language and
BO,
-> because the population are (were) docile and complacent, not because
they were
-> unarmed.

 Typification of our population? Power-seekers and Security seekers.
I feel totally out of it. Not much enthusiasm for Poetry-mongers.
Ah, well, I'd feel worse if I wrote GOOD poetry...:-)
 
-> (Guns)
->  JO>don't have or own one (Heavens no! I now live in Canada!) -- but I
have
-> 
-> I thought Canoodians had just as many guns as the southerners?
Ah, right. I forgot; there are a lotta  hunters...(I don't want to go
outside anymore. Well, there's the wine store...)

-> 
->  JO> -> I'll take growing a pair over a Pre-Crime Department any day.
->  JO> Feisty :-) (One necessarily cancels the other?)
-> 
-> A society that has no reason to act in anti-social ways, but will
nevertheless
-> defend themselves against such action without hesitation makes
authoritarian
-> law enforcement unnecessary.

Members of society have always acted in anti-social (criminal) ways...
thinking they have good reason...
Authority has different meanings in different societies; China a case in
point with current Confucian influences...

I think yer talkin lawlessness here, pardner, and I think we oughta get
this town a sherrif...and at the next hoe-down mister, yer gonna hafta
check yer guns at the door...

 
-> Europe's working on...making people not want to be criminals.

Yeah, good  luck with that :-)

->the US/GB/AU way fails to consider such a society isn't worth living in
-> at all.

I don't even think there IS a way. In the U.S. you don't fix anything, you
find someone to blame. :-)
-> 
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