Re: IRAQ sort of: Re: Tim May calls for nuking of D.C.

From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 01:37:39 MST

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    John K Clark wrote:
    > "Hubert Mania" <humania@t-online.de> Wrote:
    >
    >
    >>in this much more complex world of today, with the
    >>cortex luxury at your free disposal, the reptile answer
    >>- much armour, little brain - is not adequate anymore.
    >
    >
    > More complex? I don't think so. Human beings are weak, slow and have small
    > teeth compared to other animals, the only thing they have going for them is
    > their brain, but today it take far less brain power to survive then at any
    > time in the past so when your reptilian brain speaks to you it might be wise
    > to listen to what it has to say, there may be wisdom there. When confronted
    > with a bully like Saddam the difference between the hawks and the doves is
    > that one group favors fight and the other flight.
    >

    Uh huh. Well, all the bullies I've ever met were generally
    bigger or at least able to hit damn hard. Somehow it isn't
    Saddam that fits that image in the current situation.

    I don't favor fight or flight. I favor finding more productive
    choices beginning with not reducing the world to simplistic
    "analysis". I favor building a world where all people have a
    strong and obvious stake in a future that increases the
    well-being and saftgety of everyone. I don't think you get
    there by disowning large sections of the world or painting them
    as "axis of Evil". I don't think the reptilian brain is a lot
    of help either.

    - samantha



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