The Dark side of .io TLD

Re:The Dark side of .io TLD by cesarbs on Sunday April 19, 2015 @12:18AM (#9402019)

I was trying to make an analogy. JoeAltmaier's comment implies that it's justifiable for a nation to invade another and kick them out if the latter does not have a military, because it's not really a nation (by his definition). So my analogy meant that by that line of reasoning an unarmed neighbor has no "household" and it should be no problem if someone armed invades it and kicks the family out.

Of course this is all messed up. There's no reason a nation shouldn't be considered a nation just because it doesn't have a military.

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Re:The Dark side of .io TLD by JoeAltmaier on Monday April 20, 2015 @11:58AM (#9408948)

Well, historically its all that's mattered. And if we're going to change the definitions of well-understood things, then lets just get rid of nations altogether. Make them all states of a world union or something. Because as long as they're independent and self-managing, then some of them will prey on others of them, and military will continue to be the final arbiter.

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