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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ilaine who wrote (129598)4/19/2004 5:01:09 PM
From: Dennis O'Bell  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Or maybe this is actually common practice and I've simply led a sheltered life.

I'm going to spare myself looking at your link, but yes, these kinds of gruesome scenes are all too common outside the civilized West. We in the West today live in a situation that is, on a global scale, rather rare, not the norm at all.

In a sense, as long as there is not enough of whatever resources one needs to live well to go around, this kind of thing will continue to happen. This isn't the only reason people get into conflict, and longing for some mythical bucolic past with a limited world human population à la Rouseau isn't the solution - the continuing advances of human knowledge are. Those are where the real solutions to the world's problems will come from.
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