begin  quoting Todd Walton as of Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 08:39:37PM -0800:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 20:21:27 -0800, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > Er... With what?  Your assertion that some monocultures are good? No.
> > 
> > That you have something that approaches a counterexample? No.
> 
> Ooh.  Harsh.

Sorry. :-/

>               Except I can see why you'd say that.  My point was that
> I don't believe every situation in which one finds a "monoculture" is
> a bad situation.  (Or "sucks", in your phrasing.)  The only examples I
> can think of can be easily hair-splitted either way, and, to tell the
> truth, hair-splitting doesn't interest me at the moment.

Oh, my viewpoint has more to do with the long run and the overall 
picture.  I can see that in selected short-term situations, a monoculture
can be the most pleasant of circumstances.  Especially if your way is
the dominant way. . . but that's the most dangerous position to be in.

-Stewart "'As I would not be a slave, so I shall not be a master.'" Stremler
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