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From: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams)
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Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <1138@erix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 23-May-86 05:10:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 23 05:10:43 1986
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Reply-To: mike@erix.UUCP (Mike Williams)
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In article <279@valid.UUCP> gelfand@valid.UUCP writes:

>Twenty-three Americans killed by terrorists are twenty-three too many.
>One of the reasons that goverment exists to protect the lives of its citizens.
>Perhaps it is not that the United States values the lives of its
>citizens too highly, but that other countries do not value theirs
>highly enough.
>

Now this I don't understand. If this was true, steps would have been taken
to restrict the use/sale of hand guns in the USA years ago. Perhaps the lives
of the sort of people (ie the rich) who are liable to be killed by terrorists
outside the USA are regarded as more valuable than the lives of those (ie the
poor) who live in the USA and are liable to be killed by hand guns?

Anyway, one should have the same regard for life regardless of nationality.

Mike Williams