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To: FaultLine who wrote (95023)	4/19/2003 7:51:34 PM
From: kumar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I've seen you write this before and each time I see it, I like it less. read up on an incident commonly referred to in Indian history as "Jalianwalla Bagh". U might then understand the context of "learned to live with it". To make my feelings perfectly clear - these are not desirable attributes in any society. All I was saying is the tolerance threshold is different in different places, depending on historical experience.

To: FaultLine who wrote (95023)	4/19/2003 10:40:06 PM
From: NightOwl	Respond to of 281500

that it would mean that if we had a a proportionally similar incident of 700/4 = 175 lynchings in one day, that we should "just learn to live with it?" We should be seeing whole groups of people from both sides arrested and imprisoned. It sounds like a failed democracy to me. True Fl, But if you reduce your per capita income by a factor of 10 or 12 and consider the added costs of the Judges, police, attorneys, prison guards, and jails required to cope with the social "disorder" generated by days of 175 lynchings, and anyone's democracy is going to get a good shaking. Certainly ours would be seriously challenged. 0\|0