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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belbarid" data-source="post: 4003012" data-attributes="member: 28213">The human race is indeed, by in large, made up of good people.  Sadly, it's rarely *run* by good people, but that's not the point here.  When some person manages to poke his/her head above the crowd and make some kind of lasting mark, what you get depends on the person involved.  You might get a Saddaam Hussein, who begins programs to increase the education levels, especially literacy, among the population he ruled.  You might get a Saddaam Hussein who begins killing off people at a rate that makes it look like he wants to give Stalin a run for his money.  Either way, *humanity* is going to end up with the blame for what one influential *human* did.  At least, in the eyes of those who enjoy blaming large sections of people for the actions of a few.Everyone's seen this effect- the average IQ of a mob is equal to the sum of the members' IQ, divided by the number of toes present.  I'm a little disjointed, possibly because I just woke up and I'm running a D&D game in 3 hours, but what I'm getting at is that people are generally okay.  Populations, despite being made up of people, are problematic.  Pretentious half-wits like Sontag may like to piss and moan, but the same Genus and Species that came up with Auschwitz and the Cambodian killing fields also spawned Mother Theresa, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King, Jonas Salk, and enough others that I could keep listing them until my D&D group showed up wondering why their DM was still in his pajamas holding an hours-cold cup of coffee.</blockquote>

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