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To: LindyBill who wrote (40841)	4/25/2004 12:34:30 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794223

This research must have been done by parents - FuturePundit - Humans Most Violent When Only 2 Years Old An excellent article by Erin Anderssen and Anne McIlroy in the Canadian Globe And Mail summarizes research on child development and human violence in which they report that Richard Tremblay has found that 2 year old babies are more physically aggressive than teenagers or adults but fortunately too uncoordinated to do much damage to others. Are human beings born pure, as Rousseau argued, and tainted by the world around them? Or do babies arrive bad, as St. Augustine wrote, and learn, for their own good, how to behave in society? Richard Tremblay, an affable researcher at the University of Montreal who is considered one of the world leaders in aggression studies, sides with St. Augustine, whom he is fond of quoting. Dr. Tremblay has thousands of research subjects, many studied over decades, to back him up: Aggressive behaviour, except in the rarest circumstances, is not acquired from life experience. It is a remnant of our evolutionary struggle to survive, a force we learn, with time and careful teaching, to master. And as if by some ideal plan, human beings are at their worst when they are at their weakest. St. Augustine was obviously much closer to the truth.

To: LindyBill who wrote (40841)	4/25/2004 1:57:35 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794223

“There’s not one American in this entire area,” he said, sweeping an arm to take in a neighborhood eerily still, its streets laced with police tape. “Not one! What kind of jihad is this?” Gotcha. Blowing up Americans, just fine and dandy. Blowing up Saudis, big no-no. Meantime, IDF soldiers report that Palestinian gunmen routine grab kids and use them as human shields when fighting the IDF. Palestinian kids, that is. Now, human shields have been used since the dawn of time but it was generally thought necessary to get some of the enemy's women and children to be effective. Needless to say, if the Israelis really shot at Palestinian kids the way the Palestinians accuse them of doing, this technique would be ineffective.