On 06/28/2015 12:21 AM, dan@geer.org wrote:
Hanson/Great_Filter is an excellent reference. So is
*** These two theories seem to promote the idea that life is so valuable that actions such as the ones endorsed by the CIA over its history (coups, torture, assassination, terrorism, drug trafficking, war mongering, economic racket, etc.) are immoral. As the CIO of the investment arm of this organization, how do you plan on provoking a volte-face in its individuation that would suddenly make it, and with it U.S. foreign policy, something beneficial for all life, instead of leading it towards a rapid self-destruction of complex life on Earth? What is the philosophical basis that sustains the CIA? == hk -- _ _ We are free to share code and we code to share freedom (_X_)yne Foundation, Free Culture Foundry * https://www.dyne.org/donate/