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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (44677)	7/9/1999 11:27:00 AM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I am with you here, X!

To: epicure who wrote (44677)	7/9/1999 11:37:00 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Here is what my book on genocide says: >>>>>The growing incidence of genocide in the 20th century cannot be ascribed only to the greater prevalence of fierce hatreds. Fierce hatreds are nothing new in the past two centuries, witness: - France's revolution (1789); - Turkey's near-extermination of the Greeks (1825-29); - Britain's suppression of the Sepoy Rebellion in India (1857-58); - America's venomous civil war (1861-1865); - the Boxer Rebellion in China (1989-1900). Nazism and Communism leveraged existing hatreds and focussed them more sharply. The Nazis fiercely hated the victors of World War I and those who had forced surrender in 1919. They wanted revenge on those who crushed German pride by imposing a sharp peace that crippled Germany's economy and plunged its people into misery. The Communists in the ex-Soviet Union, China and Cambodia at first were motivated by a fierce hatred of corrupt and vicious regimes. That hatred was later directed at those who had supported - or were thought to support - the old regimes. Modern hatreds have ended in genocides with growing frequency because a wide range of technologies - chiefly transportation and telecommunication - have enhanced government power at the expense of individuals . . . . These technologies also have greatly raised living standards world-wide. But these technologies are more than simple conveniences. They have saved millions of lives by making it possible to bring modern medicines into once-remote areas. But in the hands of governments "gone bad," these technologies have been used to murder tens of millions." "Lethal Laws," Jay Simkin, Aaron Zelman, and Alan M. Rice, 1994