Posts by DCBCauchi
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Let me be somewhat abstract and whimsical for a moment, without detracting from the serious business of discussing quite I'm not sure what about Bomber.
The nation state is an aberration. Let's just ignore it. It hasn't been around long enough. It could go in any direction, most leading to oblivion.
For at least the last 6000 years, there have been three main ways of organising human societies: tribe, empire, and republican city state with communal government. Now, obviously tyrants have taken over all three, but I still think it's a no-brainer which is the best of the three, which I'd rather live in.
Doesn't matter how large or small it is, in a republican city state everyone does their bit, and no citizen starves. Imagine if the whole world were one great big city state and everyone citizens. Then the whole solar system. Then we go off to construct glittering things between the stars.
Why not?
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I guess we could chain the intolerant ones up
and what about those who want to be there…Prison theme parks. Just watch this space.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
I suppose it it is if one shuts people’s mouths with tape and forbid them from moving around.
What?
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Rich Lock,
Call me wierd, but personally I’d prefer people whose violent tendancies have been clearly demonstrated to the extent that they have managed to secure a period of incarceration for themselves to be kept in a location where they can’t do me physical harm.
I respectfully disagree. I think that problem can be much better dealt with for all concerned. Much, much better than simply locking them up.
It’s about empowering that person to manage those tendencies within a supportive environment. We know how to do this. Ultimately, that environment would be an open and tolerant society, one that looks after all its members equally.
Once again, what’s so outrageous about that?
And are you insinuating that I'm merely trolling? Insincere?
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Angus Robertson,
Yes, except with political problems the people who get harmed will protest the decision and blame whoever makes it.
You mean, politicians might get upset at journos making them answer some hard questions for a change?
Diddums.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Thomas Johnson,
Huh, what does this have to do with the topic?
I don't know. Problem: Pollies not fronting to question. One thing that must not be talked about: Possible ways of solving that problem.
Huh?
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A simple process:
1 Identify your options.
2 Assess the consequences of those options and sort them into 'good' and 'bad' according to relevant criteria.
3 Choose the best option from the 'good' options for that situation, or at least the one that does the least harm.
Whether you're solving a painting problem or a political one, I suggest the process is sound.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Russell Brown,
And that really is the issue. The Prime Ministers and other senior ministers will not front for serious questioning about what they're doing.
So what do you think should be done about it? What incentives/disincentives are there? Consider them the way they consider a recalcitrant beneficiary.
My 2c.
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Hard News: Dropping the Bomber, in reply to Richard Aston,
That where the complexity starts.
And quite right. People are complex. Isn't it much more interesting, let alone much more fun, that way?
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Yes, seriously. And, no, there is no meaning to being here but the ones we make.
The people in prisons are real people. They have as much right and responsibility to be free as anyone else. We should open up the prisons and deal with them like adults, not lock them away in hiding and pretend they don't exist or don't matter.
What's so outrageous about that?