I think that in large measure, there is a Great Difference in how prone a First World Society (say the Dutch) is towards doing such "Kill you at the Drop of a Pin!", -as opposed to your general Third world and Primitive ones. (Far More Prone towards).

The latter often can so have more of a Dedication and Passion about things, -which variously can be both a Good thing or a Bad thing.

One such Bad thing is a certain propensity to "Bite one's Head Off"!, -in the way we're speaking of here.

The Former now, -or the First World groupings, -are very much the opposite side of the entire Coin. Both the Goods and Bads of that overall Coin. We're far more Laid Back, Cool, and Easy! Very often *not* going to WW-3 over the littlest things.

Now we should Care about some More Important things in Life. And not just go about "Creature Comforts", and the like.

But at least a Good Side of that First World Coin of our's, -is that we *Don't* go "for the Machete" at the Smallest Thing or Slight!, from one another! (Except of course from some of our Crimino Punk types, Guy going after his Wife, Girlfriend, etc over some Slight, etc etc etc. Even in our Crime Rife Enuff of a Society, -in our case, -this still is the *Exception* to the "Rule", -not the prevailing Rule itself!)

I'm afraid that in many, -though certainly not all, -Third World and Primitive Societies, -it *is* at least much more!, -of a general, Prevailing Rule! I'm again referring to "Killing Sprees", etc.

Its something to be Worried about and Prepared for, -here in our First World Society (Just witness some Aspects of New Orleans, -though it could be said that Poor Folks can be more closely akin to Third Worlders).

But a Social Breakdown here in America, Western and Central Europe, or other areas of the Free / Western / and Developed World, -is not nearly so "Hazardously Likely", -as a Breakdown in Rwanda or somewhere might well be!

The former Yugoslavia, now, -can probably be viewed as something of a "Tweener Case". Reasonably Developed, (though once PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER.), -it certainly wasn't in the "New York / Paris / London Club"! Its pent up Frustrations and Rivalries of course had made it into a real "Killing Zone"!

Lebanon too, in the 70s and 80s. Though all in all, it was closer to a Third World Society, than a First. Significantly more so than Yugoslavia. And you've got the whole additional element, of a Militant Islamic Subset (along with "Militant Christians") thrown in there too.

Speaking of such, Militant Islam, -for the very Most part a Third World phenonomon, -clearly is getting a lot of its "Jollies", -out of such Beheadings and the like.

But here in the First World, -you've got the Stellar Example of the Czech and Slovak "Velvet Divorce". (though they also were once PHRASECENSOREDPOSTERSHOULDKNOWBETTER., and also something of a "Tweener Land").

So while the "Rule" doesn't always Hold entirely True, -the First Worlders and the Third Worlders / Primitives, -generally Stand on Opposite sides of the Fence, -concerning such "Machete Liklihood" here!....! [color:"black"] [/color] [email]Chisel[/email]