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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (412)	3/17/1999 3:04:00 PM
From: chaosad	Respond to of 765

Human beings are animals insofar as their relationship to nature and the natural order. When threatened, humans exhibit a fundamental sympathetic nervous system response known as the "fight or flight" syndrome. Moreover, due to the fact that we also possess the capacity for self-awareness, we have the ability to apply a sense of reason to our actions. Humans display many of the same characteristics as other members of the animal kingdom. When instinct tells us that we are at risk of losing our natural resources, (ie. food, land, etc.) some of us choose the path of death and destruction by driving off / killing our neighbors. As world populations continue to proliferate at the current rates, we will all be witnesses to what some of us perceive to be acts of aggression or atrocity. We are all part of a global food chain, and, as such, we are all subject to nature's laws. (Only the strongest will survive.) This may seem like an over-simplification to some, but it makes sense to me.

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (412)	3/17/1999 11:23:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 765

<<When the US interferes with what I perceive to be the natural order of things, I believe... Frankly, there's not such a thing as a ''natural order of things''! Politics, human relations and History are not part of Nature: there's not a set of mathematical formulae to deal with human behavior. >> Not to mention the dangerousness of such talk as "natural order of things," as if nations are led by "manifest destiny" (never mind the irony for the US, thank you ;) ). Such talk as you hear in the Balkans, in the former soviet republics, in China with regards to Taiwan, etc. is eerily reminiscent of 1933. There was a little Austrian man who used to rant about German destiny, the Fatherland, "living room." I find it alarming to see resurgent nationalism and racial purity running rampant through the world. Makes me pine for the Cold War again, at least it was safe and you only had to worry about nukes falling on your head. The whole ruckus about land in the Balkans and elsewhere is proposterous and antiquated, as if national wealth and standard of living is tied to geographic proportion. It is pure and simple ancient prejudices, racism, and militarism running rampant in the guise of national interest and patriotism. If national wealth were tied to geographic area, Hong Kong would have been the slum of the world. Its a sickness in the world today, it seems no one has learned from the past.