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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (1144)2/22/2002 10:56:43 AM
From: Math Junkie  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 6945
 
What else could make people do that?

I have noticed that neither side in this conflict minds being called desperate, but both want the other side to be seen as evil.

That people are committing heinous acts of indoctrination does not prove that desperation is not among the motivations. The Hitler Youth were borne of Nazism, and Nazism was borne of the desperation of a Germany that was subject to the crushing reparations demanded by the victors of World War I.

Evil doesn't spring from nowhere - it is always somebody's attempt to solve a problem - a bad solution, of course, but an attempt to solve a problem, nonetheless.