[ExI] reconnect

[Nymph0]

On 10/09/2007, Frederick Mann <fm1 at amug.org> wrote:
> --On Monday, September 10, 2007 08:52:57 AM +0100 BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 9/10/07, Frederick Mann wrote:
> >> Consider the possibility that the s...s, bad as
> >> they might be, are angels compared to the g...s,
> >> that the s...s have caused the deaths of maybe
> >> a few dozen, while the g...s have caused the
> >> deaths of hundreds of millions. ("g...s" =
> >> governmentologists -- members of possibly the
> >> deadliest and most destructive cult of all!)
> >>
> >
> > I thought g....s was a reference to the god squads. Religions have
> > killed millions throughout history, or have been used as the excuse
> > for killing millions.
> >
> > Government deaths are just human selfishness writ large. 'If there is
> > more of us than them, then we can take their stuff'. Just human
> > nature.
> >
> > BillK
>
> If you do some research, you may find that
> during the past 100 years, governmentologists
> have caused many more deaths than godologists.
> I suspect that governmentologists have outscored
> godologists by a factor of more than 10 to 1.

While this may be true in absolute numbers, one has to remember that
in the last 100 years there has been both many more people around *to*
kill and many new mechanised ways of killing them very quickly. If the
Spanish inquisition had access to automatic firearms, zyklon b,
mustard gas and Mark-77 napalm substitute who knows what the body
count would be!

=:o/

Heavy splashings,
Thee Nymphomation

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