----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>
> War can work for some purposes sometimes, but the resulting "peace"
> (or "a cessation of arms" as Hobbes puts it*) is most likely
> short-lived -- unless you "exterminate all the brutes" -- if such
> underlying causes of terrors and other threats to regimes in power
as
> economic exploitation, political repression, etc. are not abolished.
>
> * "For those men that are so remissly governed that they dare take
> up arms to defend or introduce an opinion are still in war; and
their
> condition, not peace, but only a cessation of arms for fear of one
> another; and they live, as it were, in the procincts of battle
> continually." (Thomas Hobbes, _Leviathan_ Chapter XVIII)
> --
> Yoshie
>
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Yup, the opposable thumb and the limbic system are increasingly
putting us at an evolutionary disadvantage regarding our own weapons
systems..........
Ian