On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 09:49:12 -0500, Brice Yokem <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >The premise of your comment is that Mankind is fundamentally aggressive >towards itself. If this were true, why is it that numerous studies of the >behaviour of soldiers in combat demonstrates or, at least, points to Mankind >being fundamentally averse to killing their own? The only human types that >fulfil your premise are psychopaths. > >The unanimous consent you speak of is already built into our genes. > >------------------------ > >Richard - > >There are other things built into our genes also, and it does not take >a psycopath for this to manifest itself. Soldiers have years of >rigorous training in order to become soldiers, this is to override >these 'other' impulses. > Years of rigorous training. ROFL You have no idea about the military, right? 6 weeks base-training or our "weekend-warriors" from the National Guard. When did they receive the years of training? You ever been in a military post and seen the training? If not, JOIN or stop talking about things you have no idea about Michael * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *