Business and Industry -- closing discussion

• Special Integration Group on Business and Industry, July 1, 1999, 1:30 p.m. 

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Enrique: Want to come back to an important issue -- the warfare. I was on a committee to come up with a code of ethics, and wanted to insist that we not do work for the military.

Mikka: "only killing" is an out-dated view of the military: what about peace keeping?

Enrique: Costa Rica is the only (South American) country without a military.

Ely Dorsey: This SIG should include discussion of the deconstruction of the military.

Ian Simmonds: I'm really reluctant to banish any form of societal knowledge. A proven and reliable military (if and when it is needed -- and hopefully it won't be) is better than either "none" or the rag-tag that emerges when none exists.

Brian: We should remember that the origins of ISSS and systems analysis

Enrique Herrscher. Recommends Arthur Koestler's book the Call Girls. It's about meetings like this - the ISSS! Should we just discuss science, or the well-being of the world.
 

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