Re: off topic: different cultures, same ideas

["Yo Intl. YK" rrr@xxxxxxxx]

At 12:34 Uhr -0700 04.09.2002, mike shupp wrote:

>There's not a lot of evidence that Indians went to war in ordinary
>circumstances for the sort of ideological/religious/loot-and-glory things
>that inspired OUR ancestors. They didn't build world empires, and they
>didn't build socialism, and they didn't build Dauchau and Auschwitz. They
>weren't perfect, but harping on their "savage
>brutality" is rhetorical overkill.

You mean they did not use their existing technology to the max?
I would have thought every civilisation has done that, the first exception
being the the current time, where lots of governments have nuclear bombs
but everybody is hesitating to use them.


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-- Rene