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re: The human race needs violence.

When I first read your post Tech1, I groaned.
You sound like an intellectualized robot.
I know your "theories" are only just that, maybe you're looking to be asked to join a think tank or something.
But this isn't Hitler's Germany.
You'd make a really good impartial eugenics researcher.

>"War purges the rot."

Sounds like you're advocating war to clean up those lower classes of society you so disdain.

>"Iraq will progress 100-fold over its previous rate of development - thanks to war."

Wrong! They are operating at about a third of where they were the previous ten years before we invaded. It will take DECADES to rebuild their society. If you and I could look at Iraq again in 20 years, I doubt there will be that much progress.

>"All of the territories that were conquered by Rome became thriving urban centers and cultural epicenters. "

Oh, you mean all that Euro-trash you talk about?

>"The industrialization of large parts of the world ....can now thank the west for their longevity... that it is 'gifted' upon.

What a thought. We are now giving "gifts" from our own fruits of war?

>"If you live in a place where lots of cultural dead wood sits and the population is stagnant...the storm is coming".

Now THAT I agree with you on. There are plenty of places like that world wide. They are called cities. With poverty. And old Mother Nature will be making things scarce as the years roll on and we're not prepared to handle the population. Would you feel secure in Phoenix?

>"Then you won't be a victim of the continual cyclic purgings nature performs to breed better, happier, more intelligent versions of humanity."

This gauled me. MAN makes war, not "nature" (although SHE appears pretty restless these days......) You talk about "humanity" as though you are not part of it. Throughout the centuries, man is still warring with his fellow man. We are not "better OR more intelligent", and we WON"T BE until we start to solve our warring capabilities with terribly destructive, offensive and fatal weapons of MASS destruction.

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