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- From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)
- Subject: Re: save the earth - ridiculous!
- Message-ID: <C0L2Hr.9KC@quake.sylmar.ca.us>
- Organization: Quake Public Access
- References: <C0GDKx.IDu@news.iastate.edu> <1993Jan7.014843.1852@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <7134@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 10:58:33 GMT
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- In article <7134@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> bane@vtx.ma.man.ac.uk writes:
- >In article <1993Jan7.014843.1852@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- >|> In article <C0GDKx.IDu@news.iastate.edu> sartre@iastate.edu (Michael J. Wendling (515) 294-6186) writes:
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- >|> >My rally cry:
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- >|> > I like the earth as it was before the industrial revolution.
-
- You obviously know nothing about what things were like back then. The
- dark ages weren't do bad if you like like ignorance, pain, disease,
- death, poverty, and filth.
-
- >|> No, make it:
- >|> I like the earth as it was before the industrial revolution, when people
- >|> lived 20-30 years shorter and had a much lower standard of living.
-
- >Tino - what is wrong with shorter lives? And what`s wrong with a lower standard
- >of living? Will either of these, really, decrease your happiness or feelings as
- >a human?
-
- Well, I think that poverty and death really don't much help in making one
- happy or successful. I find it interesting that after 100 years of
- claiming that statism would lead to life and wealth, the socialists (etc.)
- have decided that statism leads to death and poverty and that we ought to
- pursue that instead.
-
- --Brian
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