I agree with Noumenon, I think it boils down to population control. There are times (or have been hystorically) where infact the population needed to be increased, and those seem to reflect times of 'excessive' behavior.
I do think however these things take a while to change. Especially when religeon is used to impart these social codes. Now we have birth controll, methods of disease protection, etc, but we can't wipe out the years of programming instantly (well most of us can't) or even very quickly as it is still 'written'.
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Date: 2003-07-26 15:22 (UTC)I do think however these things take a while to change. Especially when religeon is used to impart these social codes. Now we have birth controll, methods of disease protection, etc, but we can't wipe out the years of programming instantly (well most of us can't) or even very quickly as it is still 'written'.