as i do agree with you NM, one must think about the other aspect.....for example, as you were saying "the course of ignoring personal rights slows society's growth" this is indeed true.....after all, think of the 60's compared to the 50's......yet, if one looks at the 50's, life and soceity was so much more easier and wholesome (though on a limitied scale), yet after every revolutionary birth comes new consquences, new crimes, new terrors, etc.....