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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Starving people-valentines
Message-ID: <116@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Feb-85 20:03:23 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 24 20:03:23 1985
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>   I will not feed starving people because ...

I wish this person had said he was joking.  Then again, it would have
been a poor joke.  Even if the world's rule were that the strong
survive, what good does that due in unexpected disaster that decimates
strong and weak alike?  If you are in a desert without food, or in the
Pacific without a boat, or in space without some kind of support, you
just will not survive, no matter how "strong" you are.

And the greatest strength is a strength of the heart, which seems
to be lacking in the opinion that prompted this response.  Not a
weak, ineffective "do-gooder" feeling like that of many "liberals"
who say "it would be nice if" or "someone should", but the strength
of a person who will do what must be done when and where he or she can.

If anyone truly believes the incredible opinion posted before,
please notify your local volunteer rescue squad, hospitals,
blood banks, Social Security office, charities, Red Cross, etc.
so that we won't waste our resources helping you against your
philosophy.	;-(

Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}