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To: Father Terrence who wrote (27778)	1/9/1999 2:40:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

To those primitives we would be gods! The Hawaiians thought Captain Cook was the God Lono. They killed and ate him.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (27778)	1/9/1999 2:42:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

How can resources be used up when we have access to all solar system. Will you pay the freight?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (27778)	1/9/1999 1:47:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Old-growth timber. Wetlands. Yellowtail tuna. Abalone. Heck, arable land (until we crash Oberon into Mars and make it wet, that is). These things we won't find in the rest of the Solar System. All the ammonia, chromium, and silica you can carry - yeah that, but in the mean time entire interlocking biological domains are being gutshot by Diesels. >Many of the resources that are being decried as being "lost" were not even considered resources 100 years ago.< That's the problem. Does that mean they are NOT resources? Noooo. Merely that there was no value assigned in considering their retrospective preciousness at the time. Thus Easter Island. A tree was valued more highly for the hut it would heat NOW than for its role in the future habitability of the island. This is something a free market looking always at the NOW is unequipped to do right. And if you don't like it, suddenly it's "mystical tribal Statist collective". Adjectives are cheap weapons. Do better.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (27778)	1/9/1999 2:33:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Luddites were Fascinating FT- they were not the anti- tech cavemen I thought they were. After reading a bit more about them I found they were actually worried about what the new age in automation would do to dehumanize the worker, to destroy the family, and to exploit children. All noble concerns imo- and all worthy of consideration. As for us being a super- race of humans methinks you have been swigging a little to liberally on your Nietzsche. But then there is no uebermensch like an old uebermensch.