[Beverly]

Originally Posted by Fish

I guess to answer this one, we would have to ask someone who has actually killed someone else in a war. I don't want to keep answering for other people but I think you will find some very sobering responses from our war veterans.

After I posted, I began to question what I said in that paragraph based on the same information you referred to. You beat me to my being able to retract that statement. And it's nor even war vets who have misgivings about killing others. The folks at home often balk at their nation's soldiers killing other people, and you get events like the backlash to the Vietnam war as well as the current displeasure of some Americans over the war being waged in Iraq.

At some point in the future, when the current ice age has fully passed, there will be life-threatening problems concerning water. Either there will be too much in some places because of polar ice caps that have disappeared and coastal water levels have risen wiping out entire cities. Or, there will be too little water in other places because glaciers that once fed rivers along which many cities have grown will become inadequate to serve the populations. How people react to this scenerio will be a true test of how easily we will kill each other..... if some virus doesn't get us all first.

Also, not to worry about continuing to discuss the issues of this thread. I mean, the initial topic was not reef related, and it was started by one of the moderators