Comments on Whose Side Are You On?official state media for a secessionist republic of one2024-01-20T23:00:14Zhttps://radgeek.com/gt/2004/08/24/whose_side/feed/WordPressBy: David MackeyDavid Mackeytag:radgeek.com,2004://geekery_today.20040824121936#comment-5022004-08-27T03:02:56Z2004-08-27T03:02:56ZRemarks like Mr. Noonan’s remind me of the term Kurt Vonnegut uses in “Cat’s Cradle” – “granfalloon.” It refers (roughly) to a false connection someone believes to be meaningful – “a seeming team that was meaningless in terms of the ways God gets things done,” – like the idea at the heart of Mr. Noonan’s comments. The idea that I must support a state in an illegitimate conflict because I happen to live in territory they claim authority over rests on principle that an accidental property of myself (where I live) trumps one of the universal principles of morality that I hold (the non-aggression principle.) But Vonnegut puts it better than I do. Read the book. It’s a good one.
]]>By: Sam HaqueSam Haquetag:radgeek.com,2004://geekery_today.20040824121936#comment-5002004-08-25T01:11:15Z2004-08-25T01:11:15ZI find the usage of ‘we’ to set policy interesting since I think it was commonly used by absolutist kings for similar ends.
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