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To: one_less who wrote (213775)	1/20/2007 8:02:27 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Before we talk about better or worse regarding such terrible conditions we ought to spend some time establishing a foundation for measuring better and worse, which really boils down to a question of ‘worth it or not’? I actually believe that someday we will be able to measure things much better. Civilization is only several thousand years old. Cosmically speaking that is no time at all. In this short period of time we have made amazing progress in language and in mathematics, but think if continue to progress at this rate, how much better will our tools be in communications in 5,000, 50,000, or 500,000 years from now. Our languages are still in an early development stage. There are a lot of things that our languages do not allow us to express. There is a great deal of ambiguity. Similarly our mathematics are in early stages of development. In time we will be able to put a lot of these questions in an equation. But, for now we have to struggle along with the tools that we have available to us. We are still in an early stage development. We are killing each other foolishly for practically no reason.