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Old 02-01-2005, 06:27 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
I was referring to wolf's post, not Gates. I identify more with the ethical views of the last two centuries than the time before.
What's so great about the ethical views of the last two centuries? Let's see... Slavery, concentration camps, Watergate, 9/11, the atomic bomb...

Hmmm... I'll take the hunter-gathers. At least the destruction was limited in their era (ie a few dozen or at very most, a few hundred).
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