>Hi Dean,
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>>>I dont think so. Most "evil" commited by the average person is borne out of ignorance. I don't think people are bad by nature.
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>>By nature do childen know how to share with others? Do they know to say tahnk you? Do they know to be polite?, do they know right form wrong?
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>>No. They must be taught these things. By nature they are bad (But cute).
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>:) I'm not talking about this kind of "bad".

Yes. You are correct. Usually a child's "mischievous" ways are harmless, but being good is learned. It is not inherent. If left alone and unguided, the child naturally became bitter and angry and mush nore likly to do "evil".

But the natural tendency to be selfish is not totaly a bad thing. It's a primal instinct to survive. But left unchecked it could get ugly. :)


>>>Yes, the problems are complex and deep with lots of historical baggage. But if there's a will there's a way. Or we could just bomb everybody and anybody who we think is a threat and feel much safer for it ;)
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>>If there is a will there's a way? What the heck does that mean? Talking in cliche now? Just thinking about it won't solve anything. How long does one have to think? Does it take a lot of thinking to know that killing in the name of some hoky religion is evil?
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>Getting back to the point on which I entered this thread and where my comments are directed, namely the Iraq invasion, if there was a will to find an alternative option to that of invading Iraq then the powers that be would have found it. There are some very clever people around after all. The powers that be decided they wanted to go to war. That was a choice and now we can all live with it.

I wish there would have been an alternative. But the UN resolutions, sixteen of them had come and gone in twelve years. Twelve years of Saddam's uncooperative stance towards the inspectors and moving cargos around before the inspectors arrive. My point is that after 911 plus the intelligent reports, not only of the USA, but from other major countries, including the UN report, put Bush in a very difficult position.

The first golf was was never over. It was a cease fire under the condition of the resolutions.

If Saddam just had been cooperative and let inspectors alone, all this could have been averted.

Nobody wants war. We all know how horrible war is. You don't have to live through one to know that.