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To: Win Smith who wrote (248273)	11/12/2007 4:05:21 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

He is feisty but not brain dead. Same for you.

To: Win Smith who wrote (248273)	11/12/2007 4:11:44 PM
From: one_less	Respond to of 281500

"Today? What's different about today?" Global society has evolved. When Western thinkers began establishing Nation States, it was believed the state was not greater than the individual, but they neglected to consider the predicament of individuals who are not members of our/their particular state, so they dismissed the thought. Individuals or political entities outside the geographical borders of a state were alien with regards to the interests of a state and its members. As the world has been shrinking, there is no longer an ‘over there;’ at least in the sense we once used that term. Cultures have blended and meshed. Now we are more inclined to consider membership in the human family regardless of geographical circumstance. An easy question in the past now gives you pause. For example: What, among modern thinkers, would we say makes an American person’s life more precious than say a Fiji Islander? Nation states no longer represent secure and sovereign culture. In modern times we need to reconsider the plight of individuals in the world. We need to consider the individual in light of powerful government entities in the world and ask the question, “Is any government, or are all government entities put together, more important than the individual liberties and freedom of one individual on the planet?” If the answer to that question is yes, then you have justification for a terrorist act against innocents to further your government entity’s political agenda. If the answer to that question is no, then you have justification for opposing any government entity or agenda that denies individual liberty, or the autonomy of a group of individuals.