LP>'Primitive' warfare is more ritualized and kills far fewer people.  The
  >idea of two men clobbering away at each other until one was dead would
  >have struck 'primitive' people as thoroughly stupid, and rightly so. The
  >current notion is to fight to the death.  The older idea was to survive
  >the encounter, and live to fight another day.
It depends on who the "primitive* peoples are.  The *primitive*
Europeans, in the anciet Greek city staes, and in the Middle East, were
known to have totally eliminated defeated villages, killing every man,
woman, and child; and burning the villages.  If millions were not
killed, it's because they lacked the means to kill millions, rather than
because they thought better of it.
                           Sondra
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 þ SLMR 2.1a þ Regret shall be the gravel underfoot.  Sandburg
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