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[yogi]

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

[pilvikki]

could we not just skip all that together and live in harmony?

[yogi]

I don't know what it would take. I don't think it ever was the situation.

[pilvikki]

i sadly agree, but in the end it would be ever so easy with some attitude adjustments from when kids are still young. or am i just naive?

[yogi]

I think it boils down to instinct. As long as there is more than one person in the world, there will be competition. And, somebody will always escalate it.

[pilvikki]

then... how to cure 'bad' instincts?

[yogi]

Good question. To boil the complex answer down to something simple, there are no good or bad instincts. It all boils down to the primal instincts to survive.

[pilvikki]

true enough, but why then do have so many suicides and at other end people who prefer to do others in - without the slightest threat to themselves?

[yogi]

The threat in those cases is internal. The only way to kill the demon within is to kill the host.