reply to post by organism315
"I let the save-my-own-selfish-rear bus go past me. We are in this together, and we need to pull together as a civilization of people"
Will you still feel the same way when your neighbor puts his AK to the back of your head and blows your brains away so that he can steal your last 4
potatoes? I think you underestimate the innate cruelty that a chaotic situation brings about in people. What a person is willing to do to ensure their
own survival.
To bring my point to conclusion, I meet a man once who told me a very disturbing story. He volunteered for a Human Aid Effort in the less well know
country of Mali. There in a small almost tribal gathering in the region of Kidal There the inhabitants where having a trial of sorts of a young boy no
more that 12 years old. The reason for the trial was unclear to my friend at first, but was explained to him by one of the missions translators. The
boy had strangled his 9 year old brother for a can of soda he had stolen from the medical unit of the mission. Sure it might have been an accident
while they were fighting over the soda but that is not the point. The point is the boy had no remorse. He wasn't even sad. It was all but a fact to
him. So dire is his living condition that it almost seemed like he reverted to a more primal state. If a boy could kill his own brother for a can of
soda, what would a well armed man do to feed his family?
Think about that before you drink the cool-aid and jump on the goodness of humanity train. As far as 2012 goes, yeah sure it could happen or it might
not. But remember Rome had running water, and after it fell it would be almost a thousand years before anyone else would again. As far as comparisons
go, the Western World would be a valid comparison to Rome. And I'm sure if you could go back to 475 A.D. and tell a roman that all he sees before him
would be gone in a year, he would laugh and call you crazy.