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To: Frederick Smart who wrote (85208)	8/10/2000 10:38:13 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 108807

A crooked answer to a straight question.

To: Frederick Smart who wrote (85208)	8/10/2000 3:58:46 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 108807

I recently (well, in the last year or so) read a review of a remarkable documentary made by interviewing men who engaged in the massacres in Rwanda. Some of the men were incredibly honest about what they had done, and why - how long-standing animosities were manipulated, how they had been sucked in and swept away by blood lust, even to the point of butchering life-long friends. I'd like to see the movie, but even so, reading excerpts was very enlightening. It is possible to get answers to such questions as "why does genocide happen" without searching inside oneself. Unless, of course, you mean that inside everyone of us is the potential for evil, which is more or less controlled by higher thought depending on the individual and the circumstances. This includes you, too. Perhaps I misinterpret your message, but you seem to believe that simply ignoring the fact that we are all capable of murder, assault, robbery, and a host of other misdeeds will make it go away. But your reptile brain will never go away, it is always there just under the higher brains, the mammal brain and the human brain.