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On Sunday, November 4, 2012 5:08:33 PM UTC-7, Dan Goodman wrote:
> David Friedman wrote:
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> > In article <xn0i55dusd4v7a...@news.iphouse.com>,
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> >  "Dan Goodman" <dsg...@iphouse.com> wrote:
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> > > David Friedman wrote:
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> > > > In article <c8ydnVE9TfeupgjNnZ2dnUVZ_jCdn...@posted.mtasolutions>,
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> > > >  Bill Swears <wswe...@gci.net> wrote:
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> > > > 
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> > > > Heinlein, of course, has been there already--with a throwaway
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> > > > line in _Starship Troopers_ on the failed attempt to breed
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> > > > aggression out of the human race.
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> > > 
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> > > And somewhat earlier, in _Beyond This Horizon_.
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> > 
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> > Except that that didn't involve any centralized attempt to produce a 
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> > specific result, at least as I remember. It was what I think of as 
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> > libertarian eugenics--a technology that let each couple choose, among 
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> > the children they could have, which one they did have. 
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> > 
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> > Or am I forgetting a different part of the story?
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> It was backstory.  Aggression had almost been bred out of
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> Americans/North Americans before the aggressive minority revolted.
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> And, of course, won.

Remove aggression and you end up with Reavers.  ;-)  

-Julie