| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | the value of education (OT-rant, long) |
| Date: | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 07:48:25 -0400 |
>Too true... Of course, my ideal society would then have to expand the
>definition of gun to include *all* weapons. Which means, of course,
And I suppose that your society would be peaceful, caring and totally
united in quest to better themselves through passive nelightenment?
There is a term for people like that- live stock. As in sheep and cows.
You do know what happens to sheep and cows, right?
There were a number of societies that held the belive of total passifism.
None of them lasted longer than a couple centuries. Those that weren't
invaded and destroyed were shredded by homegrown psychopaths and sociopaths
that they had no way of dealing with other than prettending that they
didn't have a homicidal maniac in thier mids.
As for "all weapons", in the hands of a person who is desperate enough,
anything can be used as a weapon (as defined as "a tool that assists in
causeing physical harm to another"). Trust me- ANYTHING can be used to
inflict harm or to distract (if someone is within ten feet, give them a
window, and they will take it). And I won't even ask what you would want
to do with people who's education and training makes them, in the eyes of
the law, living weapons.
CyberRaven
http://members.xoom.com/iron_raven/
"Once again, we have spat int he face of Death and his second cousin,
Dismemberment."
"Briar Rabbit to Briar Fox; I was BORN in that briar patch!"
