Subject: Re: OT| U.S. democracy in peril
From: "David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net>
Date: 16/11/2004, 22:53
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

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"Ahmed" <free@free.com> wrote in message news:419A0122.9030706@free.com...
| Isn''t there near 2 millions of those in jail in USA actually ?

Many for stupid drug offenses.  What's the matter, you can't keep to the subject  matter ?

| How many murder per year in USA ?

Too many.  I don't tally them.  At least those murders are NOT at the hands of the
government.

| How many of your kids do you kill every year ?

None, I haven't killed one nor has anyone I know.  In fact I live in a *very* peaceful
community.

| How many kids kill every year in USA ?

Too many,
But how many kids are strapping bombs on their backs and are walking into crowded cafes that
are NOT in the USA ?
How many children (8 ~ 15 yrs)  in Africa are fighting in wars ?
How many children are waging battles in the Intifada in Israel ?

| You have the most violent society, stay home. Don't bring your 'way of
| life' to the world.
|

Most violent  ?  No.  Violent ?  In someways yes.  This is the downside of culture shock.
We Homo Sapiens might live in modern houses but we still have Neanderthal mentalities and
want to protect our klan in our cave and fear another klan in another cave.  However, we
also have intelligence to fight primordial fears.

Violance is an ineresting concept.  You have to look at violence as a function of time and
in the perspective of the society in which it occurs at the time it occured.  Was it violent
in the Aztec and Toltec cultures to kill for human sacrafices ?  Just to apease their G-ds
so they may have a better harvest ?  What about chopping off someones hands for stealing
bread ?  Or stoning a woman to death for adultery ?

I think it is violent for a woman to be beaten for showing too much skin.  I think it is
violent to beat a man for shaving his beard.   I think it is violent to to chop off
someone's head for being in an opposing political party.

Like I said, you are a mushroom.  You are in the dark and fed sh!t.

You don't use the intlligence that G-d gave you, you listen to others and let them tell you
the way it is without researching the truth for yourself.  Extremism is bad in *any*
religion and history repeats itself, over and over.

Don't let me or others tell you the way it is.  Learn for yourself, think for yourself.  Be
an intelligent thinking sapien !

Dave