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To: Bilow who wrote (129995)	4/25/2004 7:57:06 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (2) of 281500

There is some truth to this. People generally take better care of their friends and relatives than strangers. But on the other hand, it's hard to find examples of where any human ethnic group did anything other than attempt to exterminate other ethnic groups. And the prehistory of the American Indians is rife with warfare between the various tribes:... I'm not taking the other side of the argument for that comment. We discovered how to make fire and subsequently applied that discovery to burn them at the stake, invent flame throwers, etc.. That's what separates us from the other species, we love to kill other species and our own species. Though to make a claim as I did, that there was ethnic cleansing going on in what is now the US, doesn't imply that we were unique in that adventure. but the presence of defensive fortresses like Acoma is another little piece of proof that man's inhumanity to man runs deep in the veins of all. Agreed. But do you wish to use that as a justification of what the Americans did to the American Indian? They deserved it? They did it too, so it's not so bad? They did it first? It's genetic, we can't help ourselves? jttmab

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