Date:  Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:00AM PDT)
From:    John French <mosshead7@yahoo.com>
Subject:  Violent Outcomes
To:  friends@foxnews.com, letters@nytimes.com: newsdesk@wpxi.com, newsdesk@kdka.com
Why do people think they can resolve issues with a gun?
 
War, gang fights, robberies, rape, murder, massacres, school shootings - all done with guns as a tool for achieving the desired results of inflicting great injury and death.
 
Of course, before guns and muskets there were knives, swords, daggers, clubs, arrows, tomahawks, hatchets and all sorts of weaponry as tools for achieving the desired results of inflicting great injury and death.
 
And, before then there were bare hands of brutality, rocks, vines, tree parts and cunning trickery as tools of violent acts, for example, described in Jack London's Darwinian/Spencer influenced novel, Before Adam, where he depicts life as a young Ape growing up in a certain tribe and breed of Apes.
 
However, in this day and age of 2007, why do we as a human race still relate progress with being able to create a better weapon? Bigger and better guns, bombs, missiles and the biggest tool for mass destruction, nuclear weapons.
 
This is our answer?! This is the best we can do with the gift that we have been given as human beings?!
 
Why do we constantly rely on violence for calculated outcomes instead of sharpening and bettering the gift of communication to resolve our issues and achieve our desired outcomes?
 
What about perfecting the art of diplomacy rather than the art of war?!
 
I believe it should be required curriculum for all students to learn debate, communication courses, public speaking, anger management, ethics & morality courses and philosophy type courses devoted to some sort of elevated inner thinking to achieve a higher form of consciousness. 
 
This type of study should be core curriculum at all ages to cultivate a better race rather than an ignorant, desensitized, non moral death culture.
 
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John French    mystrawhat.com
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