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From: dave@utcsrgv.UUCP (Dave Sherman)
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Subject: Re: RE: starving children
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 16:03:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 16:03:19 1983
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Brian Crumby implies that if the starving children in India
could be fed by all the cows which are sacred, then the problem
is with the Hindus.

I question the wisdom of indirectly criticizing a religion in
this way. If people were starving in the United States and refused
to eat corpses of humans, would you make the same kind of comment?

If the religion determines that a particular animal is not to be
eaten, then the fact it may be eaten by others has no bearing on
the hunger problems of the members of the religion. Thus, I would
never suggest that starving Americans should become cannibals,
despite the fact that in some societies they might think us
silly to starve when all those nice bodies were lying around
ready to be eaten.

Dave Sherman
Toronto
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