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Matthew Gano wrote:
If someone were to try and kill my child I would easily want to defend my child and not so easily want to protect the attacker. This is pretty natural, and I think demonstrates a natural hierarchy of importance, but this is where the focused effort to be more peaceful comes in (i.e. training to be successful at peaceful behavior). http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6861XV20100907
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If you have to make a focused effort to be more peaceful, to acquire peacful behavor, then a state of peace is not natural.
David