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From: GUTHERY@ASC (guthery%asc@sdr.slb.com)
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Subject: Comment on Social Impact Statements
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 19:30:04 EDT
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Perhaps Mr. Harrington would like to take the lead and write up a social 
impact statement for socialism.  The statement would have been fascinating 
reading for the 95 million citizens of socialistic countries who have 
been murdered by their own governments since the turn of the century.
Students of peace studies should note that socialistic regimes have 
peacefully killed roughly three times more of their own citizens than 
have been killed in all the wars in the 20th century.  In other words, 
one is safer in a war (26 killed per 10,000 exposed) than in a socialistic 
state (477 killed per 10,000 exposed).  Should we start moving left again 
as Mr. Harrington urges us to do, I'd want to start a war just for the safety 
and well-being of myself and my family.