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Faith Strikes Me As Intellectual Laziness.

I Don't See How An Article Of Clothing Can Be Indecent. A Person, Yes.

Waking A Person Unnecessarily Should Not Be Considered A Capital Crime. For A First Offense, That Is.

But Space Travel Can't Ease The Pressure On A Planet Grown Too Crowded Not Even With Today's Ships And Probably Not With Any Future Ships-because Stupid People Won't Leave The Slopes Of Their Home Volcano Even When It Starts To Smoke And Rumble. What Space Travel Does Do Is Drain Off The Best Brains: Those Smart Enough To See A Catastrophe Before It Happens, And With The Guts To Pay The Price-abandon Home, Wealth, Friends, Relatives, Everything-and Go. That's A Tiny Fraction Of One Percent. But That's Enough.

Violence, Naked Force, Has Settled More Issues In History Than Has Any Other Factor.