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back then, boats smashing into the docks was considered terrorism.

and the government still did it

Maybe this could be "everywhere, except Africa"

Well, then the trend is that the more advanced a region is, the less violence of necessity takes place.

Sociopaths and such killed back then, and kill now, although growing up in a poor environment does play a factor.

We just need to spread advancement to more places, then.

"We just need to spread advancement to more places, then."

Not everyone wants it.

Example: Africa

By that you mean neoconservative?

I'm actually very liberal in many places.

He was okay, I guess. I'm not sure what you're asking.

"Curious, but what did you think of The Joker as seen in The Dark Knight?"

A pale shadow of Jack Nicholson.

@Captain Ferseus
Well, The Joker (Dark Knight) had the idea of people "only being as good as the world allows them to be."

Would you agree?

@Matt
Have not seen that Batman movie, so I can't give an opinion. :3

I'm not sure I can put any value into that statement. What does that even mean? Can you give an example of how society determines how good you can be? And what are you driving at with your question?

> We just need to spread advancement to more places, then.

Agreed.

That is the revolution I have in mind.. to advance people, as I'm noticing in the west, we are going backwards not forward in the general population as far as advancement goes in the last few decades..

> Not everyone wants it.
>
> Example: Africa

People I know from/in Africa appear to want it as much as we do!

Often more so..

You know in some places, they are more advanced than we are..

I notice countries can often go up in their desire to want it, and then slide back down..

It interests me to understand why some countries don't seem to slip back down, Switerland for example, why is it not like the north of England!

Nigeria doesn't count.

>>"People I know from/in Africa appear to want it as much as we do!"

You don't know anyone from Africa. <<

Aren't you assuming that?

I'm just a teen, but even my high school has African people speaking in their own language (in this case Swahili)

LOL

I've a rather good friend in Uganda if you must know. (His name is Ron incidently, if you must know, he did a degree course in economics, and was most interesting to debate with.)

There are a few countries I don't seem to know anyone from, North Korea being one of them..

Whilst the subject of Uganda comes up, an interesting story he told me once about the place that doesn't appear to get much mention outside of the country:

If you go there and see rusty cranes with prefab concrete sections still swinging in the wind, above unfinished apartment blocks, and wonder the reason for that, its because:

An Isreali company was paid to put up some buildings, but in the dead of the night, they was stealing soil from the country and shipping it back in planes!

When it came time to pay the company, the president refused to hand over any more money and told them, give back our soil you stole and I'll pay you what I owe you, or get out of my country..

Really, its a wonder you have any friends at all Matt..