[FRIAM] ill-conceived question

[Steven A Smith]

Dave -

> I once taught an honors course, with Father Smith at St. Thomas on the
> Anthropology and Theology of War. One of the prime forces behind war —
> since prehistory — had been nothing more than birth control.

Do you meant literally *birth* and *control*, or rather *population* and
*reduction*?

The more literal usage works well too.  Controlling Births.  I think
much warfare culminates (or did before modernish times) in the victors
killing the men and raping/impregnating and enslaving the women either
in-place, inhabiting the conquered lands or taking them back to their
homeland.  Children alternatively would have been killed or enslaved.  
Thus the genetic heritage of Genghis Khan...

One step more sophisticated than the rats?

I don't think we have to go there, no matter how much the gun hoarders
want their chance at being unequivocally "on top" at least for one round
of the grande iterated prisoner's dilemma that is human civilization.

- Steve

>> Well, in a sense that’s correct.  But their method of “birth control”
>> <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on_ecology_and_development>
>> is not one that I am prepared to take as a model.  Just imagine the
>> worst sort of dystopian post apocalyptic novel.  See the description
>> of the Calhoun experiment on p 224.
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>> Nick
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>> Nicholas Thompson
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>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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>> Clark University
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>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com>
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>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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>> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
>> *Sent:* Saturday, May 2, 2020 12:15 PM
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>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question
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>> < You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24
>> rats were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and
>> watered and protected to see how the population would develop.  They
>> never got above two hundred.  >
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>> Maybe the rats were right?
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>> Marcus
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