Seriously folks, take it easy.

I'd hate for things to really turn hurtful.

Words do hurt.

I remember Misanthrope from way back when he
first joined the forum years ago. He is
from Albania and has not posted for a long
time.

Lets all relax and start afresh. Please?

Dear Foxy,

I know who misanthrope is. How could I not? He only ever posts now to attack me. If he is not just trolling OLO, then he sounds like a thoroughly terrible person. Nevertheless, I still feel bad for what I wrote, then I read his post again...

Dear AJ,

I'm sorry I did not know.

I always read your posts because I think they're
always rational and fair.

I don't always read many others for the fact that they're
neither rational nor fair.

Keep on posting. Please.

Thanks, Foxy. I try to remain fair and avoid biting back, but sometimes an individual's attacks will grind me down and I just snap.

Loudmouth Jo,
Yes it's true what you say about it being hard to pick what race some people are from
But it is also true that when people go to war, the overriding thing is, they know
In general what side of the racial divide they will fight on.

It may be hard to pick a Albanian from a Pakistani or whatever, if you are not overfamiliar with these races but you certainly can pick that they are not aboriginal,
Anglo Saxon, Japanese,Chinese,Jewish,Serbian or Russian.
In other words, we are pretty good in general,at knowing our own race(bloodline).
And when battle lines get drawn we are mostly only willing to fight on the side of those who offer the most protection to our nearest biological bloodline. That being, our children,our cousins, our aunts and uncles, parents,brothers and sisters and tribe.
The people in the tribe around us being the closest of any ethnic group genetically because of tribal intermarriage through the decades and centuries.

I cannot for the life of me see, why this obvious biological imperative operating in all wars cannot be seen by our so called brightest and most intelligent.
I don't think they want to see it. It frightens them to think they are being controlled and driven by nature, that they themselves won't be able to stop wars with all this nice
sounding emotional love and tolerance rhetoric. And so it is, all their best efforts at this,
since they set up the United Nations after World War,have failed spectacularly, and wars have continued unabated across the world.
Still,they think they have control over it. But, they don't have control over it.
We will as we have proven across history, kill to protect the territory for our offspring.

And you have Ray Martin thinking he can somehow change this obvious course of
nature in the historical events of human existence.
Well Ray,try and catch the wind.

Mankind is always In an uneasy truce with nature and his ability to control it,even in himself. Nature will often just reassert itself, notice the gradual weakening of modern antibiotics,

"And when battle lines get drawn we are mostly only willing to fight on the side of those who offer the most protection to our nearest biological bloodline."
So no Australians did anything in the Korean or Vietnam wars? And didn't do anything to Germans in WWI and II ? English love French and Irish in wars? And everyone shook hands in the English and US Civil wars?