Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/06/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]A rational actor doesn't have to be a panty waist! ;-) The scheme applies if the Mongols are rational actors as well. Then both parties could have good info, make their own risk/reward cost/benefit calculations and decide how to address a problem. But a rational actor faced with outright violent agression would surely retaliate. It's the rational thing to do :-) Scott Marc James Small wrote: >At 08:13 PM 6/11/06 -0400, Scott McLoughlin wrote: > > >>Frank, good point. Kind of a "rational actor" theory. Citizens can't >>be rational actors without good information, and rational actors will >>generally avoid armed conflict (given there is always incomplete >>info, and given that rational actors may well *sometimes* choose >>conflict). >> >> > >Sure, the rational actor as you call him will grin as the Mongol Horde >rides over the horizon, rapes his wife and daughters, and burns his farm. >We fight for our survival. I have no firearm close at hand but I do know >how to fight and I can be a vicious SOB if my own survival calls for this. >I do have my Dad's saber close by, and that might do to eliminate a Nasty >Guy. But, then, my dog would have shredded the fellow before he got up the >steps, so what is the problem? Do NOT ever argue with a Border Collie! > >Marc > >msmall@aya.yale.edu >Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)