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To: Brumar89 who wrote (31895)	12/16/2012 8:13:03 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Appropriate you would use a quote by the Commander General of British forces in India during the height of their involvement in the England-Africa-West Indies triangle slave trade. This fellow's other quotes much in the same spirit , soundly supports Harvard Professor Huntington's statement on how the west won ... "The best way to quiet a country is a good thrashing, followed by great kindness afterwards. Even the wildest chaps are thus tamed." It was after centuries of violent religious wars that bloodied Europe motivated the development of secular, worldly ethics, since there was only the gross failure of centralized religous authority & corruption from religion's doctrines concerning some God and the afterlife which was doing so little to really establish a stable foundation for "ethics". The Enlightenment brought on revolutions in science, philosophy, society and politics , eventually helps to sweep away the medieval world-views & makes room for introducing rational ethics & humanism based on equality while freeing men from all the taxing mental leviathons of religious superstition. With the rise of scientific discovery & observation there's a larger, more realistic & practical approach to effecting positive change & reflection of the true aspects of the human condition and the rise of humanism. If countless millions of deaths & tortures, endless rivalries & Wars in a god-intoxicated Europe alone cannot convince you, we know nothing willl, but there it is all there.