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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that.....
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1365)9/9/1999 12:24:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 6418
 
True believers of many types behave with appalling cruelty to humans who are not part of their group. We like to think our codes of behaviour stem from the divine; if they did, the us/them distinction that governs all of our relations would not exist.

My preferred solution is not to make everyone religious - this couldn't be done without coercion anyway, and might cause as much violence as it would prevent - but to expand the concept of "us" to include the entire race. I suppose we would have to find a "them".

Perhaps there is a social utility to flying saucers....
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