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Subject: Re: Off Topic Chess Trivia Question(Not computer related)

Author: Mark Young

Date: 15:43:18 01/16/00

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On January 16, 2000 at 14:25:22, frank zimmer wrote:

>I think that Thorston has one valid point and that is America does have a lot of
>violence! Whether this comes from Hollywwod or poor paranting I am clueless! I
>have heard that a lack of a certain enzyme in the human body turns on aggressive
>behavior and his fast food theory might be a valid point here as well.. Just a
>thought!

Do some people in the chess club live in the twilight zone? America is a nation
born in violence, and was violent long before fast food or coke, that is our
history. What is nonsense is to try and argue that this has anything to do with
chess. America can be a violent place to live, but we have not cornered the
market on violence. Just look at the history and current events in both Germany
and Russia. Both of these cultures have set the standard for both personalized
and organized mass violence in the history of mankind.
Germany has started two world wars, and exterminated an estimated 6,000,000
Jews. And not to be out done, Russia has exterminated an estimated 20,000,000 of
its own citizens and Jews and this just scratches the surface for both Germany
and Russia. And the last time I looked this was not done under a capitalist
system, or with the help of coke drinking, fast food, or action movies.





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