09-07-2016, 01:41 PM
(09-07-2016, 12:22 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(09-07-2016, 12:14 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: So the people can't decide, whether by politics or revolution, what kind of military technology they should have?
Did you read the article? No, people can't "decide" to eschew iron age technology in favor of sticking with bronze, nor to stick with plate armor and swords when the enemy is using firearms. People who so "decide" will soon - which is to say, within a small number of generational cycles - be conquered by others who use the more effective technology.
You didn't read the article, did you?
Warning, Eric has his own ideas of how things are and ought to be. Little things like fact and history aren't allowed to get in the way of his perception of how the world works. In this he is not alone, not hardly, but communicating with him is very difficult. The problem is less one of logic and fact, more like a problem communicating with an alien species that perceives reality in a very different way.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.