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To: TimF who wrote (100474)	2/15/2005 7:35:58 AM
From: Lane3	of 793755

Not all "swarms" are equal. Not all "swarms" are bad. I take your point and I don't disagree, but I think you are focusing on activities outside the scope of the act of swarming. So let's have another one of those dictionary arguments, why don't we? <g> I like the verb, swarm, to describe the phenomenon in question. It evokes an image of large numbers of creatures appearing suddenly from nowhere upon some stimulus. "Swarming" is this sudden aggregation. What the group of creatures does once it has aggregated I think is outside the scope of "swarm." A swarm (the group, not the event) may gather food for the community or it may sting some victim to death. The provisioning event and the stinging event are subsequent to rather than subsumed by the swarming event. I don't think that the good or bad of the subsequent event can be applied to the swarm event. Is swarming, itself, good or bad in the context in question. I think it's good that so many resources can be brought to bear so quickly. OTOH, response to blood in the water is mindless. IMO, mindlessness is always bad in human beings.

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