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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>>…</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stefano Vaj<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] future of warfare again, was: RE: Forking<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 31 December 2011 10:47, Anders Sandberg <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>>>…</span>This is not necessarily a good thing from an evolutionary psychology perspective. Military psychology has been struggling to train away normal (likely evolved) inhibitions against hurting other people for a long time<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='color:#1F497D'>>…</span>Yes. <span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span> animals, including humans, and especially heavily-armed predators have an entire set of inhibition and ritualisation mechanisms, so while intraspecific aggression instinct is well-rooted<span style='color:#1F497D'>…</span>-- Stefano Vaj<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Agreed, but the focus of the more sophisticated modern war machinery, isn’t aimed at the personnel, but rather the other machines of war. The modern warrior has nothing against the adversary’s guys. They can have as many guys as they want, for without the sophisticated mechanisms of warfare, they are as harmless as an army of kittens.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Note that in the famous shock and awe campaign, with all those fireworks, there were very few actual casualties. Once we learned to find and destroy surface to air missiles, soldiers have learned to stay clear of them, for they might suddenly explode at any moment with no known enemy aircraft in the area. There have been a number of places of worship in the middle east which have mysteriously exploded in the night, after being triggered by some mysterious weapon, again with few or no casualties, human or beast. It is unclear what was causing these explosions. It is almost as if the places of worship are somehow being used as a storage facility for materials that are chemically unstable, or that the hymnals were exploding for some reason.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Our natural inhibition against fratricide does not apply to the act of destroying the machines of war.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>