To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.off-topic.debateOpen lugnet.off-topic.debate in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Off-Topic / Debate / 3604
3603  |  3605
Subject: 
Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 12 Jan 2000 21:28:42 GMT
Viewed: 
1446 times
  
Frank Filz wrote in message <387CEFEB.6799@mindspring.com>...
John DiRienzo wrote:
   More silliness, but couldn't the Red Cross hire mercenaries if it • thought
it was the right thing to do?  If people here thought it was the right • thing
to do, wouldn't they still donate to the Red Cross?  I think thats much • more
likely than you think, and at least then our (the donor's) intervention
would be for good causes, and not to promote someone's election.

I think this would be a very bad thing for the Red Cross to do. The Red
Cross gets a lot of respect because it remains neutral in conflicts.
That doesn't mean that other organizations wouldn't do well to do this.
Of course current US poilicy would really frown on this, especially if
it thinks the organization is a terrorist organization.


  Red Cross was a pretty dumb organization to pick, but there are plenty of
others, and the idea that "we'd" fight wars for non political reasons seems
very appealing.  I never liked the idea of killing other people.  Over money
is not a worthy reason.  Over rights, maybe, but thats never the true
reason.

--
   Have fun!
   John
The Legos you've been dreaming of...
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/lego
my weird Lego site:
http://www114.pair.com/ig88/



Message is in Reply To:
  Re: Libertarian stuff (Was: Re: Art Debate Was: [Re: Swearing?])
 
I've been out of it for a little while (I've been home sick, and the threading got too complex for me), but here I am back again... (...) One point of note: none of the societies with large numbers of street children are anywhere near Libertarian, (...) (25 years ago, 12-Jan-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

209 Messages in This Thread:
(Inline display suppressed due to large size. Click Dots below to view.)
Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR