Hi ecu

re the pacifist question - it's not very well thought out, that's why I said tendency.  I subscribe to CND and IFOR http://www.ifor.org/ and Amnesty and other organisations against violence but am not very active really.

As far as the point about culture and war I wasn't separating the sexes in any way - I was referring to the whole culture. I'm not suggesting that men fight because they are men or anything like that - I was ruminating more about what it is in human culture that makes war so common.

No time to enlarge on the discussion at the moment. Time to get dressed!