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To: r9etb
Aallllllrighty then. I'm outta here.

Naturally; you are essentially without a rational reply. The point, which I made adroitly by mentioning "phasers", is that you're postulating a world in which the US has undergone a libertarian revolution, but in which nothing else has changed, including the other nations' governments, their policies toward the United States, their technology... nothing. You are also postulating that the dissolution of the military included the utter disappearance of all classified technology, which is on the face of it absurd. To consider this hypothetical even somewhat realistically, you must also consider at the very least the following:

When you say, with no preamble, "What about when China attacks?" You're assuming that the Libertarian Bloodless Coup had no effect whatsoever on the world stage except the demobilization of US armed forces. That isn't even vaguely realistic.

The examples with which I countered are, of course, wildly hypothetical, but they should at least jog you to a realization that many things would be different in this hypothetical scenario.

227 posted on 02/20/2006 7:12:55 PM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: Shalom Israel
Alas, I must concede. I had not realized that we were arguing from a perspective where local reality was no longer operative.


230 posted on 02/20/2006 7:19:28 PM PST by r9etb
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To: Shalom Israel; r9etb
You're assuming that the Libertarian Bloodless Coup had no effect whatsoever on the world stage except the demobilization of US armed forces.

To quote Robert Heinlein:

All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly, which can—and must—be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly—and no doubt will keep on trying.

231 posted on 02/20/2006 7:20:32 PM PST by Mojave
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