Re: Bad Trend in War

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jun 24 2000 - 00:25:00 MDT


At 11:01 PM 23/06/00 -0700, Damien S. wrote:

>>
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/peace_warbiology990602.html

>If you get a 404, try reloading.

Yep.

< “Whenever young people represent a
            relatively small portion of the population …
            times are relatively tranquil,” they wrote in
            their study. “But when a large portion of a
            country’s population is young there is likely
            to be turmoil and political violence.” >

Bring on the longevity treatments! Skew the demographics!

(Unless, of course, the treatments reinstate adolescent templates in old
dogs. Then we'll *really* be in the poo.)

(But the Singularity will save us in the nick of time, right?)

Damien B.



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