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From: foy@aero.ARPA (Richard Foy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Would you say this in front of a nun ?
Keywords: Mid course correction
Message-ID: <32026@aero.ARPA>
Date: 10 Jun 88 17:19:20 GMT
References: <107@hrsw2.UUCP> <4364@gryphon.CTS.COM> <5500@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: foy@aero.UUCP (Richard Foy)
Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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In article <5500@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>>>...
>>>Yeah, if you don't mind supporting a company that has cost our country
>>>dearly in terms of national security and the money (probably > $billion)
>>>to counteract it (I'm talking about much quieter propellers for Soviet
>>>submarines).  I personally won't buy another Toshiba product and will do
>>>...
>>>Dave Bakken 
>>..
>>Yes, but as far as we have been able to tell, nobody has died as the
>>result of the top coming off of a Toshiba laptop while in operation.
>>
>Are you quite sure, Richard?
>
>Let's accept Dave's estimate of $billion as $1,000,000,000.  In terms
>...
>age); then that is 400 person-work-lifetimes wasted because those at
>Toshiba wanted to make a buck, and didn't care who they hurt doing it.
>
>If the whole result of your lifetime of work is a waste, just making
>up for someone else's greed, don't you die a tiny death, Richard?
>Perhaps you are not that sensitive a person.
>...
>Kent, the man from xanth.

From another viewpoint one could say that the people hours it saved 
for those who work in the Soviet Union must have been much greater
(they are noted to be much less efficeant than us) than the people
hours it cost here. 

Perhaps people in the Soviet Union are not as valuable as people here.
If so we might forget about trying to improve human rights there etc.
etc. 

To me human relations are always very complex. After President Reagan's
Moscow summit, it seems to me that international relations are getting
even more complex and unfathonable.
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The above opinions are all my own.
Richard Foy