- 18 May 2009 13:26
#1909632
SpiderMonkey
Again, another strawman as I've said none of these things. I'm guessing you feel yourself being pushed into a corner that makes the original position increasingly rediculous. However, if you were telling the truth, there should be no corner.
What I am doing is standard cross examination techniques whereby I test your arguments to determine if they are plausable. If they are, you should have no fear of answering.
For example, we've just established that the militia will be manned by voluntary people who will be taking time out of their every day lives to do this. Well, this is a huge committment. So I was enquiring how much committment we could expect without preventing that man from earning his own living. The idea being, when having to choose between feeding his children and guarding his own electricity supply, I think he will choose his family.
But this means you must have a shift system. And the problem is, if you split the day into, say, 6 shifts of 4 hours each, now you need a militia of six times greater number than the number one would need on the battlefield to guard against a full frontal assault by anti nuclear militias. The latter will not need shifts as they know the time of attack so all they need is about a fifth of the numbers to obtain numerical superiority. All of a sudden, you need a large supply of man-power and a body to organise all of this... a government if you will.
Again, another strawman as I've said none of these things. I'm guessing you feel yourself being pushed into a corner that makes the original position increasingly rediculous. However, if you were telling the truth, there should be no corner.
What I am doing is standard cross examination techniques whereby I test your arguments to determine if they are plausable. If they are, you should have no fear of answering.
For example, we've just established that the militia will be manned by voluntary people who will be taking time out of their every day lives to do this. Well, this is a huge committment. So I was enquiring how much committment we could expect without preventing that man from earning his own living. The idea being, when having to choose between feeding his children and guarding his own electricity supply, I think he will choose his family.
But this means you must have a shift system. And the problem is, if you split the day into, say, 6 shifts of 4 hours each, now you need a militia of six times greater number than the number one would need on the battlefield to guard against a full frontal assault by anti nuclear militias. The latter will not need shifts as they know the time of attack so all they need is about a fifth of the numbers to obtain numerical superiority. All of a sudden, you need a large supply of man-power and a body to organise all of this... a government if you will.