cornered rat
Moderator
I would like you to consider a situation in which you and a number of others are condemned to die in the near future. Several of the executioners prefer to use a dandy watercooled MG13. Others want to try out Zyclon-B on you.
There's a certain difference between the options, so some of you would prefer one to the other. The "voters" on this issue are certain that the end will come, just want to pick the least painful way out. The majority is kidding themselves that they are really going to be re-settled, if they behave.
A minority insists on trying to break through the wire to the outside. They are condemned by their peers as unrealistic idiots. After all, bare hands are poor weapons against 8x57 rounds. An attempt to break out would mean no chance for a re-settlement option.
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So, what have you decided?
My point is, if we are certain that neither party will cease the effort to disarms us, the differences between the implementation of their programs become a moot point.
I plan to vote libertarian (which is to say, whichever candidate looks better, if any), rather than pick the least of the evils prognosed to win. This way, I have a slight but non-zero chance of my candidate winning.
If I vote for the others, my candidate has a zero chance of winning.
And if the others win, as they likely will, oh well...there's always the fourth box. The point is, using that forth box without trying the ballot is against our habits. Using the ballot without the fourth box to back it up is suicide.
The trick here is figuring out if Bush.Jr is fundamentally different from Gore & Co. Is it truly the difference between a trip up the smoke-stack and life or just between two different ways out, or slavery.
I don't have the asnwer. Just musing aloud.
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Cornered Rat
ddb.com/RKBA Updated March 20
"Disarm, then past the barbed wire, into the oven and out of the smoke-stack..."
[This message has been edited by cornered rat (edited May 12, 1999).]
There's a certain difference between the options, so some of you would prefer one to the other. The "voters" on this issue are certain that the end will come, just want to pick the least painful way out. The majority is kidding themselves that they are really going to be re-settled, if they behave.
A minority insists on trying to break through the wire to the outside. They are condemned by their peers as unrealistic idiots. After all, bare hands are poor weapons against 8x57 rounds. An attempt to break out would mean no chance for a re-settlement option.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
So, what have you decided?
My point is, if we are certain that neither party will cease the effort to disarms us, the differences between the implementation of their programs become a moot point.
I plan to vote libertarian (which is to say, whichever candidate looks better, if any), rather than pick the least of the evils prognosed to win. This way, I have a slight but non-zero chance of my candidate winning.
If I vote for the others, my candidate has a zero chance of winning.
And if the others win, as they likely will, oh well...there's always the fourth box. The point is, using that forth box without trying the ballot is against our habits. Using the ballot without the fourth box to back it up is suicide.
The trick here is figuring out if Bush.Jr is fundamentally different from Gore & Co. Is it truly the difference between a trip up the smoke-stack and life or just between two different ways out, or slavery.
I don't have the asnwer. Just musing aloud.
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Cornered Rat
ddb.com/RKBA Updated March 20
"Disarm, then past the barbed wire, into the oven and out of the smoke-stack..."
[This message has been edited by cornered rat (edited May 12, 1999).]