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From: weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Perspective
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 06:40:56 EST
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In article <1814@trwrba.UUCP> suhre@trwrba.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre) writes:
>I've been watching the shuttle jokes/debates going past and I think there
>is a certain lack of perspective.  Just ask yourself the following
>questions (and estimate the answers).
>
>	1.  How many people die every day on the freeways/hiways
>	    in the US?
>
>	2.  How many teenagers die of drug overdose every day?
>	    Or in traffic accidents with drugs and/or alcohol
>	    being a significant factor?
>
>	3.  How many women die as a result of illegal abortions?
>
>Finally,
>
>	4.  How many people die in Shuttle accidents every day?

I think Maurice here has a lack of perspective.  I know of no one who has
died of deaths type 1,2,3 in the past month.  I know of 7 people who died
in a Shuttle accident.

If your best friend's parents were killed, would you tell them that their
getting all upset is tacky and stupid, since they ignore all the strangers
that get killed every day, according to the news?  Even if he witnessed
their deaths?

Not only do I think Maurice has a lack of perspective, I think he is very
rude telling us what our emotions should be.  As if 70 deaths are 10 times
worse than 7 deaths, and thus we should measure our emotions accordingly.

Are you possibly planning to give us some traffic accident/drug overdose/
illegal abortion death jokes or something to balance everything out for us?

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720