Re: Soros' new investment

From: Paul Hughes (paul@planetp.cc)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 20:17:03 MDT


James Rogers wrote:

> Have you considered how many people would have to die to get to that
> "comfortable" stage? Only we wouldn't call it a "titanic war", since
> history is written by the victors, right?
>
> > Other than the cultural diversity issues, the sooner the
> > better. If we can't get rid of these horrible nation-states entirely,
> > at least let's have just one so we can avoid titanic wars.
>
> The titanic wars between nation-states have bodycounts that are dwarfed by
> the bodycounts inside nation-states caused by ill-run governments.

I recently heard that nation-states have now surpassed religion as the number
one contributor to total historical body count.

Paul Hughes



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