Sake White

It’s an interesting topic. How much order is enough order and how much liberty is too much liberty? Are we to be caught always between Charbydis and Scylla?

1. Ymarsakar Says:
   October 4th, 2007 at 11:27 am There are two schools, basically, of philosophy. [I am refering to the philosophy of human progress, rights, dignity, and so forth] One says that liberty, dignity, and human progress is furthered and maintained by violence, threats of violence, and capability to do violence. This view is shared by Special Forces folks like JB, Jimbo (a pacifist he calls himself, him a former SF Weapons sergeant), and classical liberals like Victor Davis Hanson, also Book and you Neo.The other school says that violence can be countered by the void of… an absence of mass and energy so to speak. SO long as people don’t try and they don’t compete, violence and conflict disappears. But in order to prevent people from fighting and competing, the Left has to institute totalitarian and secret police institutions. You can’t stop inertial by doing nothing or simply making a vacuum where no energy and matter exists. Violence is a force and like all forces in the universe, it may only be countered, modified, harnessed, focused, and nullified through more force.

1. When I say immune system, here is the biology to back it up.
3. Every time you get a viral infection, say influenza (flu), the virus invades certain cells of your body. Once inside, the virus subverts the metabolism of the cell to make more virus. This involves synthesizing molecules encoded by the viral genome. In due course, these are assembled into a fresh crop of virus particles that leave the cell (often killing it in the process) and spread to new cells.
5. Except while in transit from their old home to their new, the virus works inside cells safe from any antibodies. But early in their intracellular life, infected cells display fragments of the viral proteins being synthesized in the cytoplasm in their surface class I molecules.
7. Any cytotoxic T cells specific for that antigen will bind to the infected cell and often will be able to destroy it before it can release a fresh crop of virus.
9. The bottom line: the function of the body’s CD8+ T cells is to monitor all the cells of the body ready to destroy any that express foreign antigen fragments in their class I molecules.
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13. As you can see, survival in nature is a harsh thing and is mirrored macroscale by human social dynamics. Amongst survival methods are the group/hunter-gatherer/cooperative hunting school. The other school is parasitism.
15. Now The Kos Kidz accuse Jimbo of being a parasite forward of this thread. This is like the virus cell accusing healthy cells of being a danger to it. True but… only contingent upon who wins, the organism or the parasite. It relates to why treason can never prosper, for if it does then it is no longer treason.
17. Those that fear revenge refuse to destroy the cells that must be destroyed, for they don’t wish to incur collateral damage. However, this means ultimately that the entire organism fails because the immune system isn’t diong jack. So which is better, short term survival and long term extinction with the benefits of a guilt free conscience, or long term survival with short term extermination for our enemies?
18. Posted by: Ymarsakar | October 07, 2007 at 06:10 PM