Response to "Why We Fight" (missed Mar. 16 blog)

I find the claims of the author, William Bennett, that children are taught NEVER to use violence very difficult to believe. I know that children are taught alternatives to violence, usually to avoid schoolyard fights and neighborhood brawls...this is a good thing. Recently, the son of a friend was suspended from Hebrew school at his synagogue because he drew, in his notebook, several pictures of guns and battles and wrote the logo DEATH IS THE IDIOCY OF WAR. The teachers feared he was contemplating violence too much. His mother responded..we're Jewish, what's not violent about us? Take a look at the old testament, the holocaust, Israel, the fighting going on right now on the Gaza strip! She believes her 10yr old is sorting through his feelings about all of this, not getting ready to shoot someone. Children aren't stupid, they realize the difference between World Conflict and street violence. We should give them some credit.

Wrong about Crazy Love

I beg to differ with Steven Pinker's definition of romantic love. He confuses the term with the romantic pursuit invented by knights and ladies as a form of entertainment and flattery. The Romantic Infatuation he speaks of is, as he describes it, a form of addiction that begins in the brain. But the object of Romantic Infatuation is not always engaged in the pursuit. That's when its called stalking.