>----- Original Message -----
>From: Edward Weick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>>>No thanks! I saw direct democracy in action the other night on a PBS
>>>program about Rwanda: eight-hundred-thousand dead in one hundred days.
>>
>>Don't you think your being just a little unfair? That was butchery, not
>>democracy. Given its background, it could have happened under any form of
>>government.
>
>That's exactly my point. Given the opportunity, it would happen anywhere,
>at any time. There is nothing inherent in man that keeps him torturing and
>murdering his fellows. For example, the practice of human torture was
>"legal" for at least 3,000 years and formed a part of most legal codes in
>Europe and the Far East.
>
>Remember that Hitler was elected by "the people". Moreover, the men who
>ran the camps during WW2 were, for the most part, average people.
>
>Remember the Slave trade? Just some conscious family men trying to
>make a buck and put their kids through school.
>
>Let "the people" make all the laws? Bad idea!
>
>Jay
This puts us at a dead end, which may also be your point. I don't like the
idea of scientists running things. I've worked with too many of them. One
of the best couldn't think his way out of a paper bag, but he could do
wonders inside that bag. They really don't want to govern. Who's left? The
Pope? The UN? The IOC?
For want of other options, I would put my money on the street kids of India
or Brazil. They could teach us a thing or two about survival.
Ed
