All the preyed-upon (sardines, mice, bugs, etc.) have one survival strategy:
outreproduce the predators, and "make love not war" seems to be sustaining
the food chain quite nicely. Of course, too much success in reproduction
usually means exceeding your food supply, leading to population crash.
Happens all the time. So you need the predators to keep the browsers in
check, lest they eat everything in sight. Ah, isn't non-violent nature
grand...


"donquijote1954" wrote in message
oups.com...
"Unless you are planning to arm those sardines, all the cooperation in
the world isn't going to keep that
shark/dolphin/codfish/haddock/pollock from eating his fill. (Wait a
minute, sardines don't have arms....)"

How about the piranhas??? We can arm sardines with similar teeth and...
Wait a minute, we are talking NONVIOLENCE!

We can have a system by which the sardines know all the time where the
predators are, similar to the bell on the cat that saves the mice.
Well, I don't know if it works under water as well.

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