| ??? 09/08/07 23:26 Read: times |
#144159 - Targeted response Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
If every location where a suicide bombing took place were subsequently, within an hour, hit with, say, 20 GTons, do you suppose that would discourage those who would destroy the world to prove a point? How would that make us any better than them? Seems to me that we definitely need a targeted and deadly response, but 20 Gtons is hardly what I'd call surgical precision. Why are these people willing to kill themselves and countless others not even party to the argument? It's called insanity. Is it a genetic defect? Yes. Perhaps we could isolate a genetic marker for it and engineer an antibody. That probably could be done. Problem is that it would affect the entire human race. Religious fanaticism can cause people to do all manner of irrational and immoral things. But the genes that are responsible for religious beliefs are also responsible for our sense of cooperation and morality (though morality does not derive from religion, rather both are the result of the same evolutionary development of brains--human and otherwise). Anyone who's interested can search the internet for information on recent research into the evolution of religious beliefs and morality. A good place to start is some recent articles from New Scientist: http://archive.newscientist.com |
