Re: virus: Re: Virus: Sociological Change

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Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:55:56 -0700


> From: zaimoni@ksu.edu

> > > How about "A more ideal society is one that is strengthened by cultural
> > > distinctions, instead of disrupted?"

> > Because that has never happened and history shows it can never happen.

> The first is "obvious". As for the second:

> 1 day before Hiroshima became the test case for atomic warfare, "history
> shows [sic] that no city can be wiped out in less than a second."

> The lack of a construction doesn't demonstrate its nonexistence. There
> was at least a 2000-year gap between the use of quadratic formula and the
> use of the quartic formula.

Human nature is what history has shown us. Pride always divides
and that is what cultural distinction means: take pride in your
culture no matter what that culture is.