(urth) Lupiverse(es)

[Lee Berman]

>Jeff Wilson: I'm not talking about grimly necessary custodial genocide on 
>the part of impartial higher beings with the ability to see the true 
>alternatives to their actions, or the natural struggle for limited resources 
>that is common to most living things, I mean atrocities, the gratuitous 
>slaughter, mortification, rape, and other heinous cruelties human beings 
>visit on each other for their own peace of mind, or entertainment, or 
>sense of entitlement, or any of the other beknighted steps of Maslow's 
>pyramid.
 
I still think people are significantly kinder and more peaceful across the
world now than they were 5000 years ago.
 
Moreover Jeff, I think your expressed outrage is an example of this. If it
were 5000 years ago and you became aware of a famine in China or N. Korea
you wouldn't attribute it to cruelty and man's inhumanity to man. You'd
attribute the famine to your God and worship His power and ability to smite 
your enemies. You'd write a Holy Book about it.
 
Most people just don't glory in the same things they gloried in their God
5000 years ago. It seems like a good thing to me, though I know some will
disagree.
 
>Duck season!
 
Wabbit season! Heh. Though it might be unfair to non-Americans to reference 
the classic Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck argument on which hunting season it is.