Saturday, February 14, 2009
Quick Kids, Spot the Threat!
Sometimes I think it's useful to drop our abstract theories of social hierarchies and naively look at the world. In that spirit, check out the photo below from a WSJ story about the drug war in Mexico.
Now if you didn't have any other information to go on--or better yet, if a visitor from the past or future came to our time and saw this scene--which group of people in the photo seems to pose the clear and present danger to peaceful society?
Now if you didn't have any other information to go on--or better yet, if a visitor from the past or future came to our time and saw this scene--which group of people in the photo seems to pose the clear and present danger to peaceful society?
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There's a similar sentiment at the end of the mediocre movie "Lord of War."
Nicholas Cage's character explains that he and other arms dealers are necessary because there are times when presidents need to put guns into bad people's hands. In the closing moments of the film, a few lines of text note that by far the largest arms dealers in the world are the US, UK, France, Russia, and China--also the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
It seems to me that I just rambled a bit...
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Nicholas Cage's character explains that he and other arms dealers are necessary because there are times when presidents need to put guns into bad people's hands. In the closing moments of the film, a few lines of text note that by far the largest arms dealers in the world are the US, UK, France, Russia, and China--also the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
It seems to me that I just rambled a bit...
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