[PLUG-TALK] Re: [PLUG] Sounds good to me ;)
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Sat Jun 15 21:42:14 UTC 2002
On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, J Henshaw wrote:
> There are only two problems in this world: Communication and
> Overpopulation.
Personally, I think Communication is a good thing. I mean, it's true that
most communication taking place in the world carries ideas that are false,
vapid, or otherwise destructive, but I wouldn't say that makes
Communication itself a problem. I might say that a Lack of Meaningful
Communication is a problem. And at the moment, I'm not sure that I can
come up with a cause for that problem, so I would accept (conditionally)
the assertion that it is a root cause.
"Overpopulation" is the belief by that some have the right to live in a
place and others that live there (often even those BORN there) do not have
that right. I can't accept this notion as it requires arbitrary
discrimination. I can think of three concurrent problems that proponents
of the idea of "overpopulation" might accept as the true causes of this
condition: unsustainable population growth, poor settlement location, and
unsustainable use of available resources. Surely you agree that those are
problems and since they are the causes of the condition you call
overpopulation, then Overpopulation cannot be on a list of "only problems"
that doesn't also contain those three problems.
And I think you'd be hard-pressed to coherently argue (anything... sorry,
couldn't resist) that the consolidation of power is caused by
communication.
> If you can change my mind, after a discourse based on objective fact
> and reality, I am ready and willing to change my mind if that is what
> the facts require.
Economic theory is not fact, no matter who states it.
J. -- throwing gold and jewels in the river as a replacement for salmon.
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