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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (119241)	8/30/2009 5:32:27 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Respond to of 132070

>>but what happened was that we became way more efficient at killing each other because of technology.<< that seems to be an argument that we didn't kill as many people before b/c we weren't efficient enough to do it - which doesn't bode well for the "humanity is getting more moral" believers. humans have been pretty shady since day one, imho. the united states was a bit different for a while (at least for some groups of people), but i think we probably agree we are rather quickly regressing to the mean. regarding the idea of using "intelligence" to fight the BS that is going on right now, i think you miss the salient point that people vote what they think they will get - and it doesn't matter if it is stupid or net harmful. if they are promised more than pay in, they vote that way - in spite of intelligence or reasonableness. jmho - but i think history makes this pretty obvious.