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To: E. T. who wrote (68727)	3/15/2003 10:55:49 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 70976

The violence that is part of human nature is often used to support unrealistic dark views of humanity. What these proponent ignore is the very compassion which is also ingrained in our genes. In societies where the people's basic needs are met and there is no artificial marketing machine to make them thirst for more or fan the flames of hatred, peace and compassion rule supreme. This is the real law of nature. You have to take the good with the bad. WWII Germany does not meet my requirement. When I was talking about "education" I did not mean just the technical "know how". I meant it in a much broader sense of the "know how to make a reasonable living" and the time and resources to be equally advanced in social sciences and arts. Pre-WWII Germany does not meet this criteria. They were dying under the weight of Versailles Treatise, there were military units which never accepted the agreement and were still fighting the WWI, there was in excess of 25% unemployment, chaos ruled supreme. The Nazis came to power as a more polished version of the Taliban. They promised order and prosperity and the fed up public was willing to do anything to get there. Sun Tzu NB: There were some 30 odd branches to the human family tree. Of these only the homo-sapient survived. Why do you think that is? There is two remarkable distinguishing differences between homo-sapiens and the rest: there is good evidence that they had compassion and cared for their disabled members (even if they were permanently disabled and could not return the favor) and that they believed in after life. Anyone who wants to use nature as his guide to make social arguments should use the whole picture and not just the violence part.