[Newfie]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', 'I') wonder if the Amish will be overrun when TSHTF... I do believe they will be unless they compromise their peaceful beliefs... they have a lot of good growing land...

[rangerone314]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rangerone314', '
')If things get ugly, as in Chilean-soccer-team-stranded-in-the-Alps ugly, almost anything is possible.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '
')here's a pic of a banana Amish:

[smallpoxgirl]

Huh?? Amish are allowed to work manufacturing RVs? What's up with that?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', ' ')Look at the murder rates in our cities.

[Newfie]

Ludi,

I think I could argue the point but I don't know to what end. I'm sufficiently depressed already.

Let us hope your more optimistic view of humanity is more correct than mine for ourselves and the Amish, they are doing a very useful thing.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'L')udi, I think I could argue the point but I don't know to what end. .

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'S')o that's your plan? Dispensing with any sort of respect for human life other than your own?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')Very few societies were able to make it as raiders. It's not the easy lifestyle folks here make it out to be.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'T')hat's not my plan. That's what I think a lot of other people's plan will be when they get desperate enough.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'A')ll it takes is for them to be around long enough to raid your neighborhood once for you to be a casualty. I wouldn't disregard the potential threat.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')Only about 1% ( or less) of people are violent criminals. Only a fraction of a percent are murderers.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '
')
"They say that every society is only three meals away from revolution."

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '
')So a lot of people are much worse people than you are?

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'W')ho are "They" and why would someone revolt against their neighbors who are in the same boat as they are?

[rangerone314]

About human nature: there was a study of college guys asked if they would rape a woman if they knew they could get away with it, and 1/3 said yes.

What does that tell you about human nature?

Personally my theory is that 1/3 people are ethical/good, 1/3 are unethical/evil, and 1/3 are neutral or will go with the flow.

The 1% that are criminals represent 3% of the evil that simply can't contain themselves.

Sort of answers how things like the Holocaust or Bosnia or Rwanda or Cambodia happen.

About would-be-rape studies:
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199 ... r-and.html

http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qs ... 5001893034

Ain't the kudzu ape grand?

What piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the
world! the paragon of animals!