On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 9:39 PM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:

>  On 3/29/2015 3:55 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
>
>  Please! "Hunter Gatherers" - "warriors" is a boys' club term for it.
>>
>
>  I can accept that the term "warrior" glorifies something nasty, but what
> term to use? "Hunter Gatherer" is not what I mean. I refer to the people
> who directly confront other groups in battles to the death. Men are
> naturally more suited for this sort of thing due to endocrine system
> differences, that leads to bigger bodies, more muscles and more aggression.
>
>
> I think it's silly to say "warrior" glorifies something nasty.  That's a
> politically correct judgement looking back at a different era through
> current glasses.  Having good warriors was sometimes the difference between
> survival and extinction.  Is what the men did in holding Bastogne "nasty"?
>

I agree. I felt into the PC trap myself by trying to remove distractions
from the other point I was trying to make.

Telmo.


>
> Brent
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