Hi,
Sodom <sodom@ma.ultranet.com> writes:
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Oh yes, They certainly can. I think Eric is using an innacurate model
of humanity. This assumption that mankind is not primarily violent in
nature would not be very realistic.
>>
I didn't say we wern't violent in nature -- I said that violence is a learned strategy for problem solving. As evidence of the memetic nature of <violence as a problem solver>, I would cite the studies which show that children of violent parents grow up to be violent themselves...
Depending on what you mean by "works", I may have to disagree. Violence (coercion) rarely solves the actual problem -- more typically, it simply suppresses the problem, as well as generating resent and coercion damage in the form of irrationality and the loss of creativity. (people who use coercion to solve their problems end up thinking of coercion as the only possible solution after a while, which is both an entrentched theory and inhibits creativity).
ERiC