On Friday, 29 August 2014 09:24:16 UTC+2, RichA wrote:
The ISS has cost FOUR TIMES what the entire Apollo program cost.

A mote in our universe compared with what it will cost humanity to eradicate the IS scourge. Everything has to be paid for. One way or another. Our lackey dictators have their terrifying costs to humanity long after they strut before their last, military parade.

Our causing resentment at a lack of basic human rights, while we steal their country's natural resources for a pittance, is not trade. It is criminal behaviour on a global scale. What we do today and yesterday resonates down the unbreakable strings of time. Nothing is ever free. Payment is merely delayed until a later generation must pick up our tab. With crippling, compound interest to boot.

Slavery is not cheap labour. It is theft of limited lifetimes for greater personal profit. And then what, when the slaves finally revolt? Unemployment is a sociopathic tool to keep several billions controlled by the dark satanic mills of quarterly bills. True freedom is as rare as free-range, organic dodos and value for money.

Subsistence survival does not free the hungry and exhausted to add to the sum of human knowledge. Nor does sexism, class and racism and the vertical hierarchy of obscene wealth and abject, grinding poverty. Along with deliberately limited supply of education, health and welfare for quite literally billions of real human beings. These absences will all have to be paid for eventually. Whether by filling prisons, paying the wages of sin of the police state. Or by summary, mass executions, starvation or allowing preventable disease.

Fair taxes for all is a share of the burden of keeping humanity sane, well and maximizing each individual's unique potential. Instead of fighting over diminishing resources like clean water. We can only exist as a race for the benefit of all. For all time. Or we fall like every other lost empire. Each of which has left their warning sirens screaming hoarsely down the millennia, for those who have ears. None ever failed due to an excess of equality or freedom.

Monopoly is a crippling disease far worse than any polio pandemic. Diversity of source and resource and belief provide the strength to carry on despite the crises. Provided everything on offer is a truly free choice for all. And, despite the inevitably corrupt waving their magic beads, their AK47s and openly chanting their raving insanity. As they demand their child victims and their protection money against failure to comply with their paper-thin drivel.

If we were truly free and equal, the NSA, NASA and religion would never have existed and we would probably have reached the stars by now. We compare ourselves to older civilisations in the universe as if we, as a race, had been free to achieve our true potential throughout time. While we continue to exploit the vast majority of humanity. Just as has been done since we first picked up a stone to take what was not rightfully ours. Or to suppress basic rights and freedoms for the profit of a vanishingly small minority.

Our lives are still ruled by the very worst, sociopathic megalomaniacs. Inhuman, self-elected destroyers of even the most humble of dreams. So that they alone may prosper at the expense of humanity and its still-childish, unformed dreams. We have bowed our heads for so long in the service of others that we have never had time to organise humanity properly. Or even to vocalize our rights to free speech for all. We treat conscripts as cannon fodder while the Assads, Putins and Kims strut inviolate to our precision weapons.. Millions must be allowed to die before these criminals against humanity finally stand in the dock.