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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> If Gaia's going to create a balance,
> I'd hope she'd choose to torture and wipe out the
> guilty rather than the poor and powerless.

That would require a less intelligent Gaia. In nature, it is the weak that 
die first, which is how species stay strong. We humans tip the natural 
balance by protecting our weak using the resources of our strong. Outside 
our species we rarely discriminate, even amongst groups of species.