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To: TimF who wrote (4250)	12/3/2004 1:00:27 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

There is no well established scientific or mathematical principle that leads strongly to the conclusion that human violence is going to disappear. Certainly there is no established principle or widely accepted theory that leads to the conclusion that a permanently non-violent situation is inevitable. You are right there is no scientific or mathematical principle wrt to violence (refering to people killing people - thier friends and or neighbors). Its not that complex. The vast majority of humanity accept the fact that they should not kill anyone else. Very few people actually go about killing other people. I haven't done any studies on it, but my guess is that the number of people killing other people has being going down in terms of raw percentages over the last 3 or 4 thousand years. Some things are just obvious. If you are in an elevator and the elvator is in a free fall, you don't have to know anything about elevator mechnaics to know that the elevator is broken. Similarly with violence, the notion that "Thou shall not kill" and/or "Love thy Neighbor" may or may not be a Commandment from God but that it is a good thing, nontheless. I just know that eventually everyone will buy into it just like I know that any kid, from any culture on this planet, will like ice cream once they try it. (of course there will be some kids that will not like ice cream - but that is not normal). The ability to plot a graph showing the percentage of people killing people over time is not rocket science. Using that graph to do mathematical analysis may be a little more difficult, but its still not rocket science. Making reasoned projections from that analysis make take a little bit more work, but again the math needed for that is probably in existence.