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[Cathy <goosecreekfarm AT gmail.com>]

Bev

I agree with you on these points.  Aggression comes in many styles.

I'm a real wuss and would run from the responsibility for these kinds of
decisions.  In a way, I'm thankful for people who hold a high enough opinion
of themselves to believe they can run the country.

Cathy

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:55 PM, EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Thanks for that.
> I do think there is hope for us.  I think interconnectivity will over
> time, make us see that we really are connected to each other, and that
> no man is an island unto himself.  Each action has a consequence.
> Throughout our history we have gone about willy nilly without much
> thought about how we interact....we see a river, we dam it so that we
> can make electricity for ourselves and have a stable water supply..we
> didn't think about those downstream whose lives we have changed.
> Perhaps their livelihood depended on the floods or the silt from the
> heavy flow of the river, or the salmon that spawned in it.  That, too,
> IMO, is aggression...we need, we take..
> I think, in our history, it is only recently that we can start to see
> how our actions affect things.  We have seen how teasing and bullying
> can become Columbine, or how sanctions can drive a country to war.  In
> my mind the teasers and the ones who imposed the sanctions are just as
> much the evilbadguys as the labeled aggressors.
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