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To: SLAKE who wrote (19397)	8/18/1998 9:36:00 PM
From: Raj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Boyle, I think Iqbal can best speak for himself, but let me interject my opinion and please digress on them: 1. The world today is not the ideal free market society. 2. The world today is better than it was ten years ago. 3. Humans are "in a evolutionary track" battling intellect over instinct. 4. The fundamental "instinct" of humans is: a) to protect her(him)self b) to protect her(his)family c) to protect her(his)environment (could be clan, class, creed,country, etc.) 5). Given the above, you will see that historically, the most powerful of humans (physically) dominated over the weaklings. Human brain then invented tools. Tools led to domination of the better tool. Then it became apparent that organizing humans with tools created polarization of energy....leading to domination of the "better organized with tools". This went on and on for centuries till humankind realized that they were different from the animals around them...in that "natural evolution" may not be the most efficient form of evolution. That was the begining of philosophy and religion ...when humans began to question "survival of the fittest". Humans evolution has proved that all humans are capable of acheiving the heights of excellence irrespective of their genetic history. Our recent history more than proves the point. Free markets, though they do not truely exist today, challenges us to an environment where there is free flow of capital and labor; transcending national boundaries. It is only through this continuous improvement in "free flow of capital, labor and more importantly intellect" through technology that those who have been below the mean due to anomolies of history may revert to the mean. IMHO Raj

To: SLAKE who wrote (19397)	8/19/1998 2:22:00 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Poverty is the worst polluter, have you ever seen victims of mass famine? In the real world beyond Bob Geldoff's concerts and lyrics of " We are the world" the pictures of vultures (during last African famine) waiting to tear apart dying human left a permanent imprint in my mind. Development brings progress and eradicates causes of this extreme misery. A famine stricken victim has only one plea 'I would rather accept little less intelligence and a relative low IQ if I can gain some strength to disburse this waiting pack of vultures, eying my fleshless body for my soft internal organs.'