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To: one_less who wrote (215991)	2/2/2007 5:11:57 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What we lack in this generation is a locus of identity, defining globalized humanity, based on common principle. I suggest to you that globalized humanity actually does share common principles -- toleration, mutual respect. Without these, globalization is impossible. But it takes a strong sense of self to feel toleration and mutual respect. Killing other people because they are different is due to weakness. Weak people feel the need to belong to groups in order to feel safe, but that doesn't explain mass murder of "the other." In the United States, for example, Socialists band together because they feel threatened by capitalism and individualism, while Religious Right band together because they feel threatened by deviation from the mainstream, the so-called "Culture Wars." But we don't murder each other en masse anymore. At least, not lately.