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At 10:14 PM 7/03/02 -0500, you wrote:
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Snip........
>if the human psyche is taken to be universal, all human groups are
potentially
>bloodthirsty and exploitative, given the proper historic circumstances and
>means at their disposal.
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Hi all
I'm Sorry if my discussion with Vincent got a little out of hand. Scott's
statement above encapsulates the debate. Vincent appears to be saying that
it is human nature to be bloodthirsty and exploitative. Whereas I claim
that there are peoples who aren't. However when I have attempted to argue
this point with the examples from my experience it resulted in an exchange
which has departed from memetics.
Let's get back to discussing the memes.
Jeremy
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