"Mike Wilcox" a écrit dans le message de
news:3EFCC9E6.1963E376@sympatico.ca...
> Omphalos wrote:
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> > On Fri 27 Jun 2003 02:28:49p, "Édouard Dugas"
> > wrote in news:E10La.7192$OE2.860356@news20.bellglobal.com:
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> > > Eye for eye, tooth for tooth... life for life... is not a system
> > > based on justice but on vengeance. If all you want is vengeance, I
> > > can understant you support the death peanalty. As society evolves,
> > > it's standards move higher and it prefers to seek justice in lieu of
> > > vengeance.
> >
> > Society does not naturally evolve higher standards. How did thousands
> > of years of societal evolution produce Nazi Germany, and Al Queada?
Mike has replied to this... See below...
> >
> > How do you know that society is moving towards a higher standard? What
> > is the standard by which you judge society by?
Easy... you check to see if they perpetuate barbaric customs or if they do
away with them.
ED
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> The Nazi's came to power because of huge societal changes brought on by
> economic conditions caused by World War One reparations Germany was forced
> to pay. This virtually destroyed the countries social order by nearly
> bankrupting the country. Hilter offered to give Germans back their self
> respect and provided someone to blame. Al Queada is much the same thing.
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> Social change occurs gradually when shifts in behavior become mainstream,
> an example being drinking while driving and smoking. Once DWI was almost a
> joke, " I don't know how I got home, ha, ha," now it's considered socially
> unacceptable, smoking is now frowned upon and smoker's are a minority. I
> would consider these just one of the many positive changes in the last 20
> years.
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> Mike Wilcox
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