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Israel Threatens to Hit Damascus-Next step of A Clean Break?:
On 3 Jul 2006 02:51:02 -0700, "Jordan"
wrote: wrote: On 2 Jul 2006 20:44:34 -0700, "Jordan" wrote: No, it's a reference to Lyn David Thomas' hilarious argument a long time ago in a "Plagues" scenario that survivors of a global plague couldn't get goods by looting abandoned cities because the feral dogs would keep them out. When we pointed out to him that even small groups of humans could easily fight off virtually any number of feral dogs by shooting a few and scaring the rest with the gunfire, Lyn then tried to argue that in most countries the survivors would be unable to get their hands on guns to do this. He forgot, of course, about the military and police arsenals. Lyn's reasoning got really amusing when this was pointed out to him. "reasoning"? Well, IIRC Lyn's first argument was that the weapons would no longer be available because most of the police and soldiers would be dead. When I pointed out to him that dropped weapons rarely commit suicide in grief for the deaths of their owners, he then decided that unspecified people would grab all the weapons and refuse to trade any of them for anything anyone else could offer. They apparently also would refuse to kill the feral dogs with them. Gave me images of a more martial Scrooge McDuck building a "rifle bin" and going swimming in them ... It was *sarcasm*, Jordan! Phil Author, Space Opera (FGU), RBB #1 (FASA), Road to Armageddon (PGD). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Email: |
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