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Do I see the need for war? Think about this: What if all the heroism, sacrifice, determination, passion, desparate action, massive investment, belief, cooperation and togetherness that went into blowing things up and killing people all over the world were instead put into things like educating people to improve their own lives, healing the sick, feeding the starving children, teaching people that there are opportuinities beyond what their lot in life seems to have prescribed for them? The reasons that the population of rich countries grows more slowly than impoverished countries include higher education level, and material wealth. These factors lead to exploration of other options than subsistence, and give time to ponder, plan, and execute a better future. You mean I'm supposed to set aside any hope of peace, and set out to cull some unfortunates, so that there's more room for the next load of unfortunates, and so on forever? That's just very evil, or not very well thought through. With all we spend on kicking butt, we could take care of everybody! Tell me, who is on the list for the next population adjustment? Maybe we could postpone it becuase there's plenty of room in Iraq these days. Was disease created as a form of population control? Was the smallpox and measles that decimated some native tribes justified as a means of making more room for the rest of us? Causing death and misery is a very poor method of population control, almost as bad as the rhythm method. I'm thinking about it, and I see a terrible dark future with a central eugenics authority, genetic testing for citizenship, mandatory sterilization, mass discrimination against impoverished people, endless bloody brutal conflict... Hitler saw a need for that, but I do not. Rick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wenwolf" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2005 5:12 PM Subject: Re: Moral certainty - delete if you don't want the mental gymnastics! :) > But I am! Don't you see the need for war, disease and illness? I don't > like it, but without it, we would have over run the earth and it's > resources long ago. What if we all lived forever? Think about it. > > Wendy > > -----Original Message----- > > > > is possible that God wants people to learn from the experience, or > maybe > > > he is just culling the herd so we don't overpopulate the earth and > die > > > of starvation. :) > > You can't be serious! > Rick > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn