From: nobody@neva.org (Neva Remailer)
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 10:04:10 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Overcoming War by Making Friends
Message-ID: <199711190155.TAA05884@dfw-ix7.ix.netcom.com>
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Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org> wrote:
>Monty Cantsin writes:
>>One of the things that appeals to me about the tools the cypherpunks
>>are developing is the likelihood that they will end war.  What
>>percentage of wars are instigated and organized by governments?
>>That is, how many wars can we think of in which a war originated in
>>the population of country and dragged its unwilling government into
>>the fray?  I cannot think of any.
>
>That's a good point.  Cypherpunk technologies should actually
>_reduce_ the scope of violence, killing, death.

And really, once we drop all the propaganda memes, isn't it sort of
reasonable that if people are able to talk to each other without fear
of retribution that the right things are going to happen?

>It's ironic that some of the greatest supporters of crypto privacy
>are also the ones who call for more killing, who support terrorist
>actions like the Oklahoma bombing or a nuclear massacre.  They don't
>seem to understand what this technology is all about.

Oh, but The Masters of War understand all too well what this
technology is about!

"The story is told of Sir John Hawkwood (1.) that when two mendicant
friars greeted him with the conventional 'God give you peace', he
retorted: 'God take from you your alms.'  When pressed for an
explanation, he replied: 'Why do pray to God that I should die of
hunger?  Do you not know that I live by war and that peace would undo
me?'"

1. Hawkwood was a highly successful English leader of mercenaries in
Northern Italy during the 14th century.

Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm

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