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From: 1516ehl@houxm.UUCP
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Subject: The Day After
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Date: Thu, 17-Nov-83 14:34:41 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 17 14:34:41 1983
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Isnt Sunday night depressing enough without watching the world
being incinerated? Cancer,too, is awful but I dont want to
spend my time watching someone suffering terrible pain from it.
If you think we have any more control over the liklihood
of a nuclear war than the liklihood of getting cancer,think again!
And while all of you very moral people are thinking about it
recall that this is the century of Auchwitz,and this is the
century of Biafra,and this is the century of genocide in
Cambodia and this is the century of the Gulag and this is the
century of theArmenian massacares, and this is the century of
(fill in your favorite additional moral outrage).Perhaps a bit
more of our moral energy ought to have been put into preventing
some of these "conventional" tragedies and preventing or stopping
current ones ("elimination" of Bahais in Iran,for example). AS long
as these outrages continue unabated and without, I might  add, much
protest from the gathered moralists, lets not worry too much about
hypothesized future tragedies. The "conventional" problems are much
more likly to get us first. So I'll just have a glass of wine Sunday
night, listen to some Mozart and go on living as if there was hope.
All in all,alot better for the psyche  I think.