Hi Blacknad:

This brings up another apparently unrelated topic that concerns me. What are usually discribed as nice people go over the edge and commit rape and murder and other unlikely crimes. This frequently appears to be extremely out side the persons normal behavior. I felt for years, with no proof whatever, based only that some people with no stress still developed stomach ulcers, that there was a bug involved and it turned out to be true. The main premise for me is that the sweet heart guy is not a murderer under normal conditions.

Like your rats and bugs suppose that some itty bitty thing invaded humans and it thrived on our emotional output and response causing "normal" people to engage in horendous acts to create that high emotional response that the bitty thrived on. Far out you may feel with justification but life tells me there is a reason for everything and we should always be looking for it. Is anyone immune?
jjw