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Subject: [Leica] typical US brains?
From: msmall at infionline.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Sun Jun 11 18:08:37 2006
References: <3.0.2.32.20060611202857.00719a40@pop.infionline.net> <A825A3DD-84C0-4037-9182-9A2E06825065@btinternet.com> <448B7B92.2020904@hemenway.com> <448B7B92.2020904@hemenway.com> <3.0.2.32.20060611013405.02b5b364@pop.infionline.net> <448C0B94.70404@waltjohnson.com> <A825A3DD-84C0-4037-9182-9A2E06825065@btinternet.com> <3.0.2.32.20060611202857.00719a40@pop.infionline.net>
At 08:37 PM 6/11/06 -0400, Scott McLoughlin wrote:
>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 :-)
No, and no, and no. A rational actor would resist the violent aggression,
not necessarily retaliate. Let's not ramp up unless we have to do so!
Marc
msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
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