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From: canopus@amdahl.UUCP (Flaming Asteroid)
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Subject: Re: poor starving people
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Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 16:38:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 16:38:46 1984
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> BACKGROUND
> Many people are starving in Ethiopia. Many countries are giving food aid
> [...]     I think there must be too many people living in Ethiopia.
> I think there probably isn't any birth control there.
> 
> PROPOSAL
> The United States should send more food to Ethiopia, but all recipients
> must consent to sterilization.

I don't know if the famine is temporary or not, but starvation is one
of nature's ways of population control:  if humans will not maintain
their numbers at a level sustainable by the land, nature will do it
for them.

Unfortunately, not everyone would consent to voluntary sterilization
in order to receive food, and there are too many ``bleeding heart''
liberal organizations, and institutions like the Catholic Church,
who under the guise of ``humanity'' would want to feed these people
anyway.

If we continue to play God, continuing to tamper with nature, and are
somehow able to keep all these people alive, what will we do for the
next famine?  And the one after that?  Ultimately it will strain even
our own country's ability to feed itself, resulting in a massive
global famine.  Then what?

No one ever said that life would be fair.
-- 
Frank Dibbell  (408-746-6493)          ...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!canopus

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