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From: alle@ihuxb.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: The Joy of Starvation
Message-ID: <475@ihuxb.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Jan-84 18:49:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 24 18:49:19 1984
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Phil,

You let your emotions get in the way of your logic on this issue.

If you feel so strongly that simply feeding the hungry people solves
the problem, then why don't you take $10K from your salary and
feed 100 children/year in the "sub-Sahara"?  If all of the others
on the net who also believe that this would solve the problem did
this, then thousands of children could be "kept alive".  If you
profess to be a Christian, then this would certainly fit into the
philosophy of "selling your possessions and giving to the poor".

I don't believe that feeding these people would solve their problem.
When something is simply given, then there is no incentive to ever
improve "your lot in life".  All that results from feeding hungry
people is more hungry people.

Allen England at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Naperville, IL
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