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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Montana: "Let's make stupidity mandatory!"
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 08:25:45 -0600
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On 1/17/2025 5:21 AM, Shadow wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2025 11:30:14 +0700, John B. <slocombjb@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:07:10 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/16/2025 12:28 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>> On 1/16/2025 10:30 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>> On 1/16/2025 10:00 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In my opinion, the reason that humans rose to our place on the food
>>>>>> chain is because of our individualistic need to better ourselves and
>>>>>> our situation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Your rabid individualism has obviously stunted your education. Don't
>>>>> expect that many will value your totally uneducated opinions.
>>>>>
>>>> Interpretation varies.
>>>>
>>>> Mr Tricycle has a point, and a very good one at that.
>>>
>>> I suggest a test. Put Mr. Tricycle out in the wilderness all alone. I
>>> predict he won't better himself or his situation. In fact, I predict he
>>> won't survive long.
>>>
>>> OTOH, human beings working cooperatively have built entire civilizations.
>>
>> Your argument sounds so logical... until one actually work with
>> primitive people, the ones the trike man is talking about. And yes I
>> have worked with this sort of people. In one case we had to call in
>> the Indonesian military to stop a "war" between two villagers over who
>> would keep a worn out plastic tarpaulin. Hardly an example of
>> "cooperatively".
>>
>> By the way, the military solution was to simplify get out of the
>> helicopter and immediately shoot one of the two fighters. Fight over.
> 
> 	What faction were the "military" ? Nazis?
> 	They murdered a citizen in cold blood and didn't solve the
> problem.
> 
> 	And unless that "primitive person" was a baboon, his IQ was
> probably equal to, or even superior to the "military's"***. Not having
> access to a decent education doesn't make you stupid, it makes you
> ignorant.
> 	[]'s
> 
> 	*** The military are notoriously stupid. Far more stupid than
> the general population.

Well, their mission was to prevent a war and further 
slaughter. Best solution? Maybe not, but we were not the 
officer in the field that day.

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Andrew Muzi
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