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Re: Medical Marijuana
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:41:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > Do you want a system in which the current population of China and India can
> > vote to nuke Scotland???
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> I want a system where countries do not want to "nuke" others and where
> wars are not fought via focus groups and media driven opinion polls.
It would indeed be nice if a war-less system had *ever* existed.
Obviously a world without war is preferable to a world in which war is
common, but wars were fought for stupid reasons long before focus groups and
media polls existed; there's no benefit in blaming them for war, as if they
were chiefly responsible for it.
Dave!
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| (...) Yes, but aren't they in fact responsible, not for war as a concept, but for certain kinds of war, and certain ways of carrying out war? Arguably focus groups and the media had convinced successive administrations that the american populace (...) (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I want a system where countries do not want to "nuke" others and where wars are not fought via focus groups and media driven opinion polls. Scott A (23 years ago, 23-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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