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From: ingrid@pilchuckDataio.UUCP (the Real Swede)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Perspective
Message-ID: <252@pilchuckDataio.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Feb-86 18:27:36 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 21 18:27:36 1986
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> In article <1814@trwrba.UUCP> suhre@trwrba.UUCP (Maurice E. Suhre) writes:
> >
>... 
> If you assume that all people are worth the same, then the shuttle
> explosion is not that big a tragedy in terms of lost life.
> 
>... 
> On the other hand, I think I am probably more useful to Mankind than
> someone who is about to die of a drug overdose, or the average women
> who dies from an illegal abortion.
> 
> Thus, if I hear about an astronaut dying, and two or three random 
> USENET readers dying, I will feel a greater sense of loss over 
> the astronaut.  And if someone from the net dies, and the same 
> day I hear that two or three addicts died, I will feel more 
> sorrow over the person from the net.  I think many people feel 
> the same as I do, and this is why the shuttle explosion is 
> considered such a tragedy, even though "only" seven people died.  
> 
> -- 
> Tim Smith       sdcrdcf!ism780c!tim || ima!ism780!tim || ihnp4!cithep!tim


this posting is so bizarre and involved so obviously few brain cells
that it is not even worth commenting on, other than perhaps to say
"what the fuck does the average woman and illegal abortions have in
common, you onion head?!"