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Re:The Heart of Deterrence (2012) by ChristianBundy on Saturday April 23, 2016 @12:57PM (#11556315)
But there has to be an "us" and "them" unless we live in a truly post-scarcity society.
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Re:The Heart of Deterrence (2012) by joushou on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:03PM (#11556940)
You can label whatever group you find yourself in to be "us", and the rest as "them", but they're no different than you. You're just being selfish in valuing your life more than theirs.

This selfishness if of course natural for any human, but that does not make it better.

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Re:The Heart of Deterrence (2012) by maxander on Saturday April 23, 2016 @01:17PM (#11556407)
Does there have to be? It seems more accurate to say that we like there to be.
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