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Old 03-21-2005, 10:41 AM   #14
Undertoad
Radical Centrist
 
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Cottage of Prussia
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Yes, "simple" is exactly the word I have for your view of the world.

Look at the chart again and see how many deaths in the 20th Century NOT INCLUDING WARS. Those are the people you don't care about. The people in the mass graves in Bosnia are the people you don't care about. How they got there is no concern of yours as long as they didn't get there in a war. How compassionate of you.

Cars are how people in the US get to their productive workplaces. The US is the most productive nation on earth. "Productivity" is the measure of creating the most out of the least amount of resources.

If your workplace is not productive that's too bad. Most people do things for a living. A lot of Americans work hard all day and then come home exhausted to watch TV all night. You want to fault these people? Fuck you, on their behalf.

Cures for cancer is what we work on when we're not farming all day. Almost all cures have come in the last 100 years when productivity became important. Almost all cures have come from productive nations even though the VAST majority of humans still live in UNproductive ones.
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