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

To: epicure who wrote (30335)	9/30/2001 12:02:47 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

What do you mean by "successful" I was using the word in the same way we use "successful" in evolution, in which context successful and superior are, for all practical purposes, the same thing.

To: epicure who wrote (30335)	9/30/2001 12:05:08 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Other things that have swept the world (depersonalized to avoid baiting anyone into reaction mode): Radiation from Chernobyl The Plague AIDS Rats Zebra Mussels Russian Thistle Successful, widespread, ubiquitous or most prolific (superior) is clearly not the same as "desirable to us" (whoever the US is that is making the observation of same). Russian thistle is probably pretty happy with its state. Would those Zebra Mussels that are clogging water distribution systems rather be dead because they are causing us harm? I don't think so. Religion has always been a fertile ground for producing zealots. But zealots don't need a particular religion - they'll make up their own if they can't find one weird enough for them.