Re: Conlang journal

In article <ffguuj$c8v$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, David Wolff
<dwolffxx@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > War. Genocide. Can't be done by individuals.
> > 
> > It takes a village (to commit atrocities).
> 
> Yeah, things were so much better when we lived in caves.
> 
> After all, when there's only 3 people per cave, there were never
> murders.

A feeble response. People in groups are more harmful than the _same_
people as individuals. The average Joe on the street would never dream
of traveling around the world to kill people he'd never even met, but
tell him he's part of a group threatened by another group, and bang! he
can't wait to join the army and go kill some foreigners.

Racism in the old South was another great example. A white person who
might have been kind to his servants and reasonably polite to random
blacks would become a different person when he got liquored up and put
on his Klan robes.

Why can't you admit that people in groups are more evil than the same
people functioning as individuals? Is it because you're a communist and
your political ideology is based on group-think? (Since you've been
involved with the Esperanto movement I assume you're a commie or some
other form of left-wing extremist crackpot. No offense intended.)