LP>Once we decided to fight over ideology, then we began to think we had to
  >fight to the last person.  We think this way today because we've been
  >told to think this way and we may have trouble imagining an alternative.
  >But we could solve disputes with ritual warfare if we could only
  >conceive of it as a credible alternative.
I think solving all disputes with a good lacrosse game would be the way
to go.  The Creeks sometimes solved disputes with lacrosse games.  Of
course sometimes the Creeks used their sticks to bash the opponent over
the head and kill him, or broke his legs with it, in order to make sure
they won the lacrosse game.  But that's a whole different story.
And the same thing goes on in sports today, even when it doesn't involve
territorial disputes, so maybe it's just the nature of things.
LP>I think that every culture has engaged in some form of warfare. It's my
  >impression that native Indian warfare was the restricted ('primitive')
  >kind.
I think that was often true.  I don't think it was always true, however.
                        Sondra
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