Webmanager Critest has said, " Xenophobia is nature's way of keeping the world from getting overpopulated. It's just like the rise in homosexuality and pedophilia is nature's response to lower the birth rate."

Excuse me?

I don't mean to be rude, but Hog wash is the first thing that comes to mind.

Working backwards... What lower birth rate? The planet is already over populated, with over six billion people, most struggling to survive. For some, finding drinkable water and a mouth full of food is an all day job. Others waste enough in a week to feed a village for a month.

Homosexuality and pedophilia, like the poor and death, have been with us since the beginning of time. Homosexuality has been celebrated and vilified depending on what age and which religion and or culture dominated that space and time. Remember the ancient Greeks and Romans? I believe science will prove that homosexuality is genetic and a person can no more help being homosexual, than they can who their parents are, or their skin, hair, or eye color.


I don't begin to understand pedophilia. Even animals do not use their young for sexual gratification. This is a sick and twisted aberration of the mind. A compulsion, a lack of moral fortitude, and a mental health issue.

The so called rise in pedophilia, is more about the retarded and backward thinking about anything sexual in this country and culture and time. It's also about a screwed up legal system that is more about winning, than truth and justice.

I think the population of pedophiles has only risen with the rest of the population. While the numbers haven't changed, something happened that has given brass to the balls of pedophiles everywhere. I'm not sure what that something is or when it happened but pedophiles everywhere seem to have banded together and try to make their wrong thinking political.

Used to be, the finger of public scorn was a powerful agent to drive outcasts from decent society. Fear of outraged family, neighbors, a lynch mob, kept all but the most driven and those with the least self control from doing harm to children. Now with a transient population, everything is left to the system.

For too long the system has handed out wrist slaps or turned a blind eye to the toxic nature of pedophilia. There is very little justice for children who are abused untill it's too late.


Would that science study the mental workings of pedophiles to discover how their attraction to children began, perhaps then an alteration in attitude or to the brain it's self could be performed to protect both the pedophile and the children he is attracted to.

And last; Famine, and disease is natures way of keeping the population at a sustainable level.

War is governments way of culling the population. Nature's way is fair, it's the luck of the draw. Governments take the best and the brightest from the gene pool and leaves the rest to reproduce. That creates a dumb, docile, and lazy society that is easy to control.

Xenophobia is defined below and has very little to do with population, except to keep that population within it's own group.

Xenophobia.

Xenophobia is a fear or contempt of foreigners or strangers. It comes from the Greek words xenos, meaning "foreigner," "stranger," and phobos, meaning "fear." The term is typically used to describe fear or dislike of foreigners or in general of people different from one's self.

Fear is the key word here.

The effects of Xenophobia sociobiological researchers see it as an innate biological response on the part of the evolved human organism in inter-group competition and the biologically rooted tendency of people that are more similar genetically to behave more generously toward each other.

Primates exhibit xenophobia when one social group comes across a rival group in the jungle. According to some researchers, all primates have an innate, evolution-produced tendency to seek proximity to familiar faces because what is unfamiliar is probably dangerous and should be avoided or perhaps attacked. Chimpanzees, and other primates, have been known to attack, kill, and eat, members of other groups.

More than two hundred social psychological experiments have confirmed the intimate connection between familiarity and fondness. (This would explain why we don't usually kill and eat family members.)

This universal innate, evolution-produced tendency in humans is the foundation for the behavioral expressions of xenophobia.

Favoritism towards one's own ethnicity is an evolutionarily based, "objective" value "universal nationalism", in which all planetary ethnic-based communities or nations have the right to preserve their own heritage and distinctiveness.

That's all well and good, but when will humans evolve enough to understand that to be truly human we must, for our own sakes, embrace all people and work together to solve the planets problems as one community?

It's time to stop drawing lines in the sand and defining ourselves as "us and them." We are all one people. All of us bleed red blood, we all treasure our children. Each and every one of us want the best for our selves and our families.

Last night, on 60 Minutes, the story was about a preschooler who died of a prescription drug overdose. The parents are charged with murder. They blame the doctor.

This child was being treated by a psychiatrist for bipolar disorder, since she was two.

The kid was on four different antidepressants, off label, which means none of these drugs were developed or tested for little kids. Children are just as likely as adults to be treated with powerful anti psychotic drugs, although children are more likely to receive the newer "atypical" anti psychotics. In six out of 10 visits, patients regardless of age receive a combination of at least two drugs.

A 40 percent increase in bipolar disorder in children should mean a corresponding increase in adults with bipolar disorder. Apparently that isn't the case. The study that provides this alarming data doesn't answer this crucial question. This means we're either discovering previously unrecognized bipolar disorder in children, or that they're misdiagnosing children. Are we only now discovering a huge reservoir of untreated psychiatric illness? Or is there an epidemic, not of disease, but of misdiagnosis and over treatment?

How does a doctor diagnose a two year old a having bipolar disorder? Oh, irritability may be the only sign. Have any of these doctors heard of the terrible twos? The horrible threes? The obnoxious fours? The obominable fives? The offensive sixs? Then it starts over again with the teenage years.

What do these drugs do to the developing brain of a child? Who knows? No one even knows what causes the disruption of brain chemicals or even if that is the basis of bipolar. It's all guess work.

Give me a break!

Where is the common sense here? A baby with bipolar disorder? This is the same psychobabble as repressed memories was. Repressed memories has been debunked and is a thing of the past. The damage done was relatively minor, confined to hysterical adults and a few hundred psychiatrists that jumped on that gravy train.

Flooding a child's body and brain with chemicals is something altogether different.

What we have here is a huge reservoir of parents who have money to support the health industry and and drug companies.

Allow me to go on a rant for a moment...

Have you noticed the many drug commercials there are on TV these days?

Ask your doctor about----------- (Insert the popular name of a drug here. ) You are directed to diagnose your own health problem, tell your doctor what drugs you need, then pay up.


Do you hear the disclaimers? One advertisement asks you to trade your stuffy nose for cataracts and glaucoma, among other things. ( I'll keep my stuffy nose, thank you. Pass the tissues please.) If you read the small print (read fast) it says, the drug company doesn't know how or why the drug works.
Somehow I think that knowing how and why a drug works should be a prerequisite to the FDA approving it.

Who names this stuff? "FLOMAX" So a fellow with an enlarged prostrate can watch the football game without having to pee so often. (maybe he should drink less beer at the game and drive home safely instead?) Again with the disclaimers... Might cause a sudden change in blood pressure when standing, rarely causing fainting, but just in case Guy, make sure you don't hit anything, or the person in the seats in front of you at the game when you fall down. Tell your doctor if you have this, that, and any other things.... Shouldn't your doctor know these things? Tell your eye doctor if you plan on eye surgery that you have taken this drug. Why? they don't explain that part.

I love the disclaimers at the end of the adds for erectile dysfunction... If you have a sudden loss of vision discontinue the use of this product. I guess great gram ma was right.

What about all those class action suits the drug companies are dealing with? Vioxx, Bextra, Celebrex, Baycol, Ephedra and Fen Phen just to name a few. Only the lawyers make any money on class actions suits, I guess that means the legal industry gets it's share of the pie as well.

What is it the government's food and drug administration do for us again?

The bottom line is we all have to become smart consumers. We seem to put more time and energy into reading up on the benefits and risks involved when buying a new car than we do when taking prescription medications or giving them to our kids. We have to ask questions, like, has this drug been approved for children? Maybe we should rely on our own good common sense when dealing with a kids behavior too. If you have concerns about your child's growth and development, there are more books on child behavior than you can shake a stick at, do your homework at the library before you run to put your children on drugs.