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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (5531)	2/12/2001 2:23:53 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

What I meant was that our IDEAL (as opposed to de facto) model of society and personal behavior might as well be modeled on the food web. I have a friend who works for the weapons lab. We have many philosophical debates about how we personally make a difference to the world. He kind of called me to task because if I thought the elimination of world poverty was so important why wasn't I doing something personally to end it. He was telling me about someone who had assembled all the reasons people who talk the talk, don't walk the walk. I said when I was 18 I wanted to go to college, but not right away. I had no funding so I opted to join the military in the most pacifist position I could find. Had I been offered the same training and benefits, but the tour of duty would have been to build a sanitation plant in Africa, did he think I would have taken that instead? He knew I would have. To this day, I still do engineering work that benefits humanity as opposed to creating weapons. I think that my contribution to world peace would have been more lasting and profound with the Peace Corps equivalent to my avionics tour in the Navy. It certainly would have been more fulfilling for me and probably would have done more to increase the perceived role of the US in the opinion of the world community.