Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com> writes on 26 November 2002 at 14:15:32 -0600 > DDB said: > > >Lots of things we've been doing for thousands of years that we're > >starting to give up, and a good thing too. > > Ummm, yeah. Like war, right? ;-> Yes. We've given up a *lot* of war. And we're even starting to require international consensus to wage it. Even when we, the remaining superpower, are involved. Slavery is another one we've made great progress in giving up. We're also improving our record on ecological stability fairly quickly. Not to say we've *arrived* on these or any other issues, mind you! -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info