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My opposition might think:
Ignoring the fact that nuclear war is a clear and present danger will not address the problem in the least.
To wit I have a response already started in another thread here on this individual forum.
I do not ignore that which is clearly dangerous. Advertising any military action is paramount to suicide. Read: Unintended Consequences by John Ross.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1888118040/002-7716953-7584837?v=glance&n=283155
I do not have the energy to physically stop nuclear war. If I had, then, I would not be sitting here writing. If my empathy spider sense is working and the opposing viewpoint has determined that I ignore the clear and present danger, then, they are wrong no matter how many times their falsehood repeats the accusation.
After Waco I ran for congress. I told everyone willing to consider my viewpoint that baby burning is a crime and we supplied the energy. The paper trail of evidence starts with my pay stub. It ended with an autopsy that would make any T.V. viewer of the CSI shows face their own falsehood (in my opinion) supposing that their consciences could be turned on as easily as conscience can be turned off; and tuned out.
http://www.public-action.com/SkyWriter/WacoMuseum/death/81/81_aut.html
Above is number 81. A very large number if it is you or your loved one.
As to the nature of the problem and how to solve it:
Below is a hypothetical example of human commerce:
Take any High School auditorium:
Fill it with 100 people.
1 despot
99 political philosophers,
Each having their own individual ideal
The one despot takes the weakest, youngest, most beautiful individual and begins employing despotism upon that individual. The despot utilizes all known despotic practices; rape and torture being the most heinous. The despot makes up a few new routines above and beyond the default routine.
The pacifists gather and consult their collection of knowledge.
The anarchists do the same.
Meanwhile, perhaps days later, the despot moves on as his current ‘property’ expires. He moves on to the next most promising piece of property.
Now there are 97 philosophers, one despot, and one subject.
The ‘commerce’ continues.
The commerce is not equitable.
The commerce is based upon the value principle. The despot values life more than the subject, in an odd sort of way, a selfish greedy measure of value that is unsustainable. In time there are 96 subjects and one despot. The remaining subjects are progressively less valuable. They are busy trying to find a common principle by which they can address the present and obvious concern. There is one less now that may have had the best answer.
When the ‘leader of the free world’, your ‘president’, goes “Nukular” the results will be similar to my ‘thought experiment’ above and that ‘thought experiment’ is currently happening all around the globe. Get in line or get as far back in the line as you can. Whatever you do, by all means, don’t entertain any possible notion that just maybe you may have missed something important that has already been discovered in history.
Above is the situation. The youngest, the weakest, and the most beautiful can be any unknown and faceless Iranian now living.
Note: The auditorium doors are open.
Some people leave. The show is just a little too pornographic. They would rather have someone edit the display. Not end it.
Some people pull up a chair.
My participation might be similar to the despot's. I could claim the despot as "my" property to do with as I pleased at that moment. My technique in consuming my property may not be as obviously enjoyable. Maybe not.
The point is: I do not know what I would do in such a situation. I can only guess based upon empirical evidence.
Despots do not openly conduct their business for long. Their business is covert or short lived. In the auditorium everything is out in the open.
Back to the High School Auditorium:
Someone fed the despot. Why? Have ‘we the people’ suddenly fallen from the turnip truck?
I think the answer is no. ‘We the people’ feed the despot because some of us want a well fed despot in a our corner.
Suppose the despot begins his violent tirade in the open for all to see and some of us can’t sit idle as the business progresses. It is too late to stop feeding the despot. Can we agree that only a few, left in the auditorium, will begin to see the value in having a stronger despot in their back pocket.
Is it not obvious that a very well fed despot would be even more appealing, at that time, than a scrawny, sickly, and anemic despot “on deck”?
And so, if it can be seen, that some solutions may appear to be appropriate, as time goes by, but those apparent solutions are not necessarily the best possible solution.
When people begin to understand that each other human being is NOT another organism to be used for personal gain, then, they may be allowed to come up with a notion that each other organism can be potentially very beneficial so long as they are allowed to grow up unmolested.
Profiting from Iranians who are allowed to grow up unmolested may include the profit gained from a previously unknown human invention or discovery potentially occuring because a particular iranian was allowed to live. What is the cost of killing Jesus? That isn’t too tough to answer is it?
What is the price?
I’ve wandered a lot. So now my opposing perspective may have lost interest.
Why not turn in your 401K and use that power to invest in energy production? Now is a good time to start. Just like yelling in the High School Auditorium. Produce more energy aimed at the problem. Yell: “I can help you.”
Help the despot too, if possible, in time, so as to reduce the production of despots rather than accelerate that business practice.