how do you "lock them away" without drawing a box around them? in theory, it's all very wonderful. in practice... not so much. there may very well be a number of people willing to work together to turn the world into a giant commune and all work together for the better good of society. but there will always be a number of people who want more. they won't respect the lack of borders or the "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one" mentality. then you'll need a group to act as the enforcers of the rules and make judgements as to whether or not 'individual A' acted in his/her own self-interest as opposed to the interests of society. now you've got the beginnings of government. you can call it a "council of tribal leaders" or anything else you'd care to call it... but it's government.
again, it's a wonderful pleasant thought. everybody working together in harmony trying to attack the problems that plague us as a race (disease, famine), and not attacking each other. but do you really believe that if borders were to magically disappear tomorrow... that we'd all live in harmony? it'd be anarchy and it'd be ugly. On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > So lock them away from the people they would harm. But drawing a box > around them or their prey only gives them more reasons to be > aggressive. > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Some people have a genetic predisposition to violent, aggressive > behavior. > > Some people get a rush from hurting others. Clinical tests have > demonstrated > > the phenomena and even isolated some of the genetic markers that seem to > be > > involved. Eliminating borders will do nothing to eliminate the threat > posed > > by people like that. They don't want to share the bounty of the earth, > they > > want to take it for themselves and subjugate everyone else. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:286251 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
