Today I completed and uploaded a new Miscellaneous page to the
Dialogue section of the Self-Sovereign Individual Project. It
consists of the exchange of emails between my nephew Aaron, an
Air Force pilot, following the one I sent him that demonstrated
my own personal implementation of my essay, "Social Preferencing -
Evaluation and Choice of Association; A Method for Influence"
http://selfsip.org/focus/preferencing.html and is contained at its
conclusion.

No content of the emails has been omitted except for his last name
and email address. (Note that he was notified from the first message
that the emails would become part of Self-SIP.) My summary comments
follow the exchange and begin:
"When I sent the original email to Aaron, I did not expect initial
agreement with my thinking, otherwise he would already have resigned
his Air Force commission or be in the process of doing so. I
expected to likely receive some of the well used excuses for the US
military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan. To his credit, Aaron did
not parrot any of these, possibly because I made it quite clear in
that initial message that I had made a thorough examination of the
underlying factors and evidently would not be swayed by the current
US administration and news media line of "fighting terrorism". But
what did surprise me was an inability and/or unwillingness to
express his ideas, beyond stating that they are "rooted in [his]
faith in God" - which is in essence saying that he does not use
logical thought based on facts (except of course in regards to
piloting a plane and possibly in other technical areas).....
http://selfsip.org/dialogues/misc/preferencing_at.html

The type of thinking that Aaron demonstrates in his email responses
is quite typical of what I expect many will find when they try to
verbally (or in writing) influence others to cease involvement in
and support of the US (and other governments') military actions in
Iraq and Afghanistan. The reasoning I have used to point out Aaron's
faulty thinking and substitution with emotion will likely be
beneficial to others, and hopefully encourage them to make use of
the powerful non-force tool of social preferencing for this and
other major issues.

Links to this dialogue are now present at the end of the original
essay on Social Preferencing and from Interpersonal portions of
MoreLife.org

**Kitty