Dear ttbn,

You are a very disturbed man with a very distorted view of the world.

Mr Opinion,
ttbn has a very clear view of a very disturbed world, it's you who's mind has been fogged-up by an incomplete education !

Individual,

You appear to be arguing on an emotional level
not a mature intelligent one.

ttbn may well have a very clear view on certain
issues but that does not invalidate Mr Opinion
finding him to be a very disturbed man with a very
distorted view of the world.

As for your opinion that Mr O's mind is fogged up
by an incomplete education? You are not in any
position to be able to judge that for either
yourself or any one else. Firstly you have no
knowledge of Mr O's full education, and your opinions
are of course based on your own education (or lack of).

You are only making comments based on your own
psychological make up - a distinctive set of traits.

cont'd ...

I forgot to add that you are of course entitled
to your own opinion - but not your facts.

Dear Aidan,

You asked earlier on 'Why do so many people think Australia's objective should be to deter migration rather than to profit from it?'

Answer is quite simple: humans are basically greedy and do not want to share their resources, especially with people they see as outsiders. All stems from the time when people stopped being hunter gatherers and took up farming so that they no longer had to wander around in search of food. People then had to start defending their territory against outsiders in order to survive off a fixed food supply. When numbers started to outgrow food supply they then had to start conquering outsiders to expand their fixed food supply. And the rest is history as they say.

"...All stems from the time when people stopped being hunter gatherers..."

Yes, one notes how the hunter gatherers, personified in fairly recent times by the American Indians, who all lived peacefully and shared hunting grounds before they became farmers