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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (91067)4/8/2003 7:19:40 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>"I am going to eat poison to make myself too distasteful for you. Once I am sure you cannot eat me, I will eat vitamins to make myself feel better".<<

But this IS irrational. Animals which have developed poison as a defense are not harmed by their own poisons.

Further, applying this analogy to real life, you're saying that men who have been educated in the West and understand modern techology and science nevertheless reject using it now because they want the West to leave them alone, but plan on using it later.

That's absurd.

You can't use technology in the modern world without being part of the modern world, unless you plan on redeveloping it from the tiniest nail, and the simplest screw driver and hammer and wire and light bulb. Every time you communicate with a Western country to import a light bulb or a nail, you're importing more Western culture.
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