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  1. Newsgroups: talk.environment
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost!jmc
  3. From: jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy)
  4. Subject: Re: Native People's leadership (!!)
  5. In-Reply-To: dean@vexcel.com's message of Tue, 28 Jul 1992 22:54:08 GMT
  6. Message-ID: <JMC.92Jul28175405@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU
  8. Reply-To: jmc@cs.Stanford.EDU
  9. Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
  10. References: <STEINLY.92Jul27185132@topaz.ucsc.edu> <1992Jul28.183126.4370@vexcel.com>
  11.     <STEINLY.92Jul28125208@topaz.ucsc.edu>
  12.     <1992Jul28.225408.3575@vexcel.com>
  13. Date: 28 Jul 92 17:54:05
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  16. The counter-cultural people in communes are parasitic on the main
  17. culture in the following senses:
  18.  
  19. 1. While of working age, they don't contribute their share to support
  20. the old, the armed forces, aid to dependent children.
  21.  
  22. 2. They probably don't have their share of children to maintain
  23. civilization.
  24.  
  25. 3. They don't deal with their own criminals.
  26.  
  27. 4. If they get sick, they drop back in to the main culture.
  28. --
  29. John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
  30. *
  31. He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
  32.  
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