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Subject: Re: Population control (to sevener)
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Date: Wed, 10-Sep-86 15:28:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 10 15:28:15 1986
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> >...
> >Shall we breed ourselves into abject poverty and starvation?
> >                    tim sevener   whuxn!orb
> 
> Why not begin to look at people as a resource, for production, rather than
> simply a consumer of resources.  Of course your thinking is limited by your
> socialist views of humans as mere tools of society, something to be
> inventoried and limited when the need arises.
> 
> Tom Albrecht

 *** FLAME ON ***
YOU HAVE MADE ME VERY ANGRY!!
YOU have the AUDACITY to claim that I and others who are doing
whatever we can to feed the hungry, who have contributed to groups like
Oxfam America which provides TOOLS and seeds so that starving people
can grow their own food and not rely on subsidies forever, that
WE are the ones who view humans "as mere tools of society.

Maurice Demierre was a Swiss Catholic who went to Central America to
live among the poor and help to bring them a better life.  He was
murdered by Reagans band of terrorists.
 
I myself have yet to join the Peace Corps or the American Friends
Service Committee but I know other people who have eschewed the
luxuries of life in America to go live in the Third World, where
thirty children die EVERY MINUTE, not every day, not every hour
but EVERY MINUTE from HUNGER and STARVATION.

This is a fact, Mr. Albrecht, and you and others of your ilk
have already stated that you don't care one good g****mned about it.
"Let them eat sand" seems to be your motto for the starving
in the Sahel, "Let them eat bullets" for the hungry victims of the
Death Squads in El Salvador and Chile.

Well, if you don't care that thirty children died of hunger in the
time in which you read this article, that is your right.

But to imply that caring people throughout the world who
are doing what they can, including population control, to
stop the senseless deaths of 30 children a minute from starvation
simply view humans as "tools" is an absolute outrage.

 *** FLAME OFF ***

I have tried to stick to facts and logic but I have had it up to
here with this brand of selfcentered greedy idiocy.
Now that I have vented my spleen, I will return to more rational
exposition.
             tim sevener  whuxn!orb