Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 13:45:32 +0100 From: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@lpt.ens.fr>, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, Konstantinos Konstantinidis <kkonstan@duth.gr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: helping victims of terror Message-ID: <34350000.1001853932@lobster.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3BB6A7BE.8157B03F@mindspring.com> References: <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB216E8.89F3419@mindspring.com> <20010926202630.C10954@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB427FD.61AE3E6A@mindspring.com> <20010928144755.C7471@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6174E.BCDCCAA6@mindspring.com> <20010930021157.A315@lpt.ens.fr> <3BB6A622.58C86193@mindspring.com> <3BB6A7BE.8157B03F@mindspring.com>
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--On Saturday, September 29, 2001 22:03:58 -0700 Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> wrote: > Terry Lambert wrote: >> > it's far more likely >> > that as usual you stepped way out of your field of expertise and don't >> > have a clue what you're talking about. >> >> Can we stop with the ad hominim attacks already? They do not >> make your arguments more persuasive. > > PS: I will happily listen to your alternative theories as to why > there is continued ethnic and religious violence in India; I'm > willing to admit that the scholarly sources from which I have > derived my own opinions may be wrong, even if they agree in the > great majority... they are, after all, predominantly English > language sources (there's a dearth of Tamil, Devengari, and other > Indic script writing on the subject on the Internet, or perhaps > it's just badly indexed). Predominantly the cause of all social tension is the state of the economy. When all elements of society are doing well then there tends to be harmony because nobody is interested in disrupting an environment in which most people are benefitting. When the economy starts to decline then social tensions come to the fore, because each social group is chasing after the declining wealth that exists and in those circumstances it is easy for fanaticism to whip up hatred of other social groups. Of course in many societies there is also intrinsic economic division, where one element of society is doing well while another element is suffering so the antagonisms between the social groups can be prevalent even when the economy is doing well. The social conditions can be seen to be behind most of the conflicts in the world, the fanaticism that arises is a symptom of these conditions and not the root cause of the divisions. Paul Richards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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