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Friday 10 January 2014

Movie Of The Week-The Outlaw Josey Wales 1976

Click the title. When people store weapons, they tend to get tempted to use them. The right to bear arms had obvious limitations. A shoulder sized rocket launcher with small nuclear grenades would be incompatible with the goals of a civil society. This is also true of a machine gun. The citizens who sought this right existed in the mutual presumption of a law-abiding social contract. If your neighbour forgot his promise, you could bear arms individually and the community could bear arms collectively to fend off a mutual threat to the community's existence. This was before the collective community developed standing armies for collective threats and a 911 system to address your neighbour should he forget his promise to leave your potatoes alone.  Potatoes that come out of the ground are a good source of energy but all energy does not have to come out of the ground such as coal and gas. The civil society has a 911 system to safeguard its collective interests and limits on weapons ownership are imperative to survive the trip to Walgreens.  Limitations and laws on energy use to safeguard civil society are also an immediate imperative. What's wrong with hydrogen fuel cell tractors? The forklifts are really popular; indoors that is.   The farmers would love that sort of thing. It's also good for the wheat and oats. As the Quaker oats granddad says, " the oats will do you a lot of good. It's the right thing to do." This is also true of zero emissions fuels. It's good for the tasty wheat! 

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