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think that the doctrine of pre-emptive war is as dangerous as Mutually
Assured Destruction in the middle to late part of the last century. It's
inherently destabilizing.
Any act that is inherently system-destabilizing, whether
of families (choose
your example), ecozones (cf rainforests), economies (cf globalization),
societies (cf Cambodia in the 1970s), balances of power (cf
the present) or
of planets (a hot topic now, and hotter soon) is THE MOST
WRONG THING TO DO
IN ANY CIRCUMSTANCE.
C.P. Snow (1905 - 1980) said: "The world's greatest
need is an appetite for
the future. The sense of the future is behind all good policies.
Unless we
have it, we can give nothing either wise or decent to the
world."
Acts that are inherently system-destabilizing in and of
themselves violate
Snow's "sense of the future." They are therefore
never good policies, and can
bring mankind nothing that is either wise or decent. This
is canonical.
I seldom manage to say anything that I'm sure that Donella
Meadows would have
agreed with. This I'm confident would meet her approval.
There's no higher
test.
Bob
Knisely
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