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To: bentway who wrote (184740)	4/7/2006 12:01:56 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

Whether it will lead to democracy is yet to be seen. Myself, I don't hold that democracy is the end of evolution as far as governments go. Well feed and relatively wealthy people have time to consider politics and such, so I think it will lead to some form of democracy. Starving people worry more about the next scrap of food. China provides a textbook example of "good" and very bad dictatorships. Mao was in the category where I'd agree with Hawk, that something should have been done to the tyrant, although it would have been very difficult. The characters of the last few decades are much different. So different in fact, that I would say the West should let them find their own way to peace and prosperity, rather than encouraging things like Tiananmen Square.