[quote=Arraya]in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.[/quote]
Arraya: Which is the point, right? I had a PoliSci professor comment on Marxism, saying that it overlooked the most important factor: Human nature and that was its greatest failing.
When you look at America’s attempts to legislate good behavior, none of them work. I believe its because you can’t. People are people: Heroic, generous, venal, corrupt, cowardly and everything in between.
