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From: pvp@ihuxl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: The Joy of Starvation
Message-ID: <854@ihuxl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 12:13:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 23 12:13:49 1984
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>It is not possible to end starvation by sending food to the hungry -- one
>simply ends up with many more hungry people.  This is no kindness.  The
>solution lies in helping the hungry people to self-sufficiency, by teaching
>methods of birth control and improved agriculture.  This the United States
>does, and should do more of.
>
>Scott Renner
>{ihnp4,pur-ee}!uiucdcs!renner 

This has got to be the most asinine statement
I've ever seen in net.politics. While millions
of children die each year due to malnutrition
world-wide, the warehouses of the United States
bulge with excess food purchased from our farmers
by our government to keep the prices high. 
And along comes Mr. Renner to pontificate that
feeding the hungry does them no kindness!
Yes, Mr. Renner, we know that simply sending food
to the hungry does not make them self-sufficient.
All it does is keep them alive, so that perhaps they
may learn to be self-sufficient someday. But apparently
you would prefer them to be self-sufficiently dead.
Serves them right for not practicing birth-control,
doesn't it? So just let those babies starve to death,
it will teach them a lesson. And just keep warehousing
all that milk and cheese, so that we keep the prices high.
After all, if we gave it away to feed the dying babies
in sub-saharan Africa, then they wouldn't have to buy it,
and the prices would fall. Tsk, tsk, then how would they
ever learn to be self-sufficient?

I hope you don't profess to be a Christian, Mr. Renner.
You are a disgrace to the human race.

		Phil Polli
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