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• • 05 Aug 09
  • 1:26 pm

  Applause. Yet, I have to take issue with the 'delicate' tone of the closing sentence. There is no 'perhaps' about it. With a little thought, it's easy to discover over-population to be the root of most 'evil' and social ill. War: the violent grab for resources and space by political entities, unlikely if your citizens have enough already. Read, 'fewer citizens diminishes the problem'. Crime: same thought, but at the individual level. Pollution: human populations consume local and distant resources unbridled. There is no sustainably consumptive population on the planet except for small hunter-gatherer groups. I'm not advocating a return to …

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• • 18 Feb 09
  • 7:31 pm

  I don't follow Machtinger's logic when he says: "As I understand it, terrorism refers to the killing of innocent civilians for political reasons; therefore all forms of nongovernmental violence do not qualify as terrorism." 9/11, drug beheadings in Tijuana, the Oklahoma City bombing, anthrax mailings, etc., etc., are apparently not terrorism according to his reckoning. I believe Machtinger needs to re-read his dictionary.

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