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- Newsgroups: dc.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!clsi!kevin
- From: kevin@clsi.COM (Kevin Cameron)
- Subject: Values (Re: Protest)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.180756.28988@clsi.COM>
- Originator: kevin@dubhe
- Sender: usenet@clsi.COM
- Reply-To: kevin@clsi.com
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- References: <Bxqxpx.6D@access.digex.com> <1992Nov17.042407.27816@hfsi.uucp> <BxwBMH.5J6@access.digex.com> <1992Nov19.042759.7655@hfsi.uucp>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 18:07:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.042759.7655@hfsi.uucp>, ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO) writes:
- > In article <BxwBMH.5J6@access.digex.com> dougnews@access.digex.com (Doug Humphrey) writes:
- > >In article <1992Nov17.042407.27816@hfsi.uucp> ata@hfsi.uucp (John Ata - FSO) writes:
- > >>In article <Bxqxpx.6D@access.digex.com> dougnews@access.digex.com
- > >>(Doug Humphrey) writes:
- > >>>The safety of the population is *directly* tied to the issue of dollars.
- > >>>
- > >>>>I guess we as a society are going to have to decide whether we
- > >>>>value all human life, or just certain ones. If the answer is all
- > >>>>human life, then the economic argument becomes irrelevant.
- > >>>
- > >>>This is simply not true, and can not be demonstrated. You can not
- > >>
- > >>Well, I guess in your mind you've made the decision that human
- > >>life boils down to a matter of economics.
- > >
- > >Really? I don't think that I said that.
- >
- > I think that there are two issues here that are being confused.
- > ...
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- The inability to do anything about a problem because "it will cost too much" will
- eventually destroy this society.
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- Kev.
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