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Come the Independence, what will we do with the military?

Bright Green Scotland | 03.02.2013 18:55

For me, the whole appeal of leaving the union lies in the idea of reimagining the country we want to live in from first principals, in the hope that we would jettison a range of damaging traditions which are only accepted because they are unquestioned and which show their direct lineage

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jsut see

03.02.2013 21:22

Uh huh,,,,, well - cast your vote like everyone else and see what the majority vote for.

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Possibly over optimistic? (worth discussion)

03.02.2013 22:01

"I would respond that resource-related wars would seem to be a grim inevitability on the planet’s current trajectory, and that building a just world is our only hope of avoiding them"

But would JUSTICE alone be enough? Suppose we have two neighboring peoples who wish to make different choices between population density and resources available per person or what percentage of the their total environment be reserved for the wild. Now it's JUST that they get to choose based upon their differing cultural values. And JUST that both peoples accept the consequences of their choices.

But when I look at that scenario I see the likelihood of conflict between these neighbors if the people of one (because of their choices) are relatively well off and the people of the other (because of their choices) are close to being unable to survive.

PLEASE -- if you want to discuss this, assume for the sake of the discussion that both places started out with the same population density and the same amount of remaining ecosystem. so that the future difference which I see as leading to conflict wasn't the result of a difference in starting conditions.

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