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To: elmatador who wrote (75107)	6/11/2011 4:32:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217752

Not necessarily: < meddling with other countries is bad for you. > If outright conquest and genocide is doable, it can be good. Maori tribes would attack each other and the winners would eat the losers and take over their women. That was the human norm for millions of years and is still how chimpanzees do it [other than the eating part]. With the advent of Christian thinking, and the mutual trade, voluntary interaction, private property, thinking and talent specialisation, way of life, those barbarian antecedents have faded though they come to the fore still, from time to time around the world, either by way of individual crime or geopolitical megalomania for 1000 year reichs. Islamic Jihad did well because they freed the serfs from the yokes of their masters. Similarly, the British Empire did well because they brought common law and freedom from slavery. Maoris for example loved being served dinner instead of becoming dinner. But with hordes of British Subjects from around the empire crowding into England, they had to call it a day and pull up the drawbridge. It was great while it lasted to be a British Subject and be able to roam the planet [much of it anyway]. With Tradable Citizenship, such a situation, but more stable, could again be achieved. Mqurice