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To: Dataman
The progress of civilization was brought about only throught the incessant conflict of peoples and races. War is one form of this conflict and threfore a natural, and even a necessary, means of human progress.

Gee, you act like there was something wrong with that. Are you going to say that the United States and other (classically) liberal democracies were wrong to be in conflict with the Soviet Union and other totalitarian regimes and political systems?

At the same time, whether (or when) such conflict is good or bad has not a thing to do with the analogical phenomena of competition for reproductive representation between individuals within a species. Even if we concede the applicability of the analogy, we would still be committing the naturalistic fallacy (arguing from "is" to "ought").

375 posted on 05/07/2003 3:42:57 PM PDT by Stultis
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To: Stultis
Gee, you act like there was something wrong with that.

Ok, you're on record believing that war is a necessary means of progress. You and Adolf would have been good buddies.

411 posted on 05/08/2003 12:47:47 AM PDT by Dataman
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