MMario, it IS glaringly obvious, probably even to the average kindergarten child. If you disagree, fine. Go ahead and show how murder/suicide rates and war have nothing to do with cultural attitudes and predispositions toward violence. That should make a real twisted - but perhaps interesting - read!

While you're at it, maybe you could try to logically prove how the degree of sunburn people experience within a given country has absolutely nothing to do with the climate of that country, or what that country's people are "taught" about standard, acceptable behavior in the sunlight.

Anyway, real life calls so I won't be checking in here again for many hours, maybe not till tomorrow. Suggestion - let the thread die if the topic bothers you so much. I promise I won't refresh it! I've learned quite a bit from Don and a few others, and I've seen Ira's hypotheses demonstrated a number of times here already. That's what I was curious about, but you know what curiousity can do to a Cat!

daylia