Re: why does this newsgroup have beasts


John Larkin wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 00:24:41 -0800, xray <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:59:03 -0800, John Larkin
> ><jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<snipped thoroughly sensible rejoinder

> So my message to Bill is that I don't have his skill at putting people
> down, and I don't need it or want it. No political system can bring
> justice and happiness to mean people.

I've got a liberal supply of happiness and justice - I'd prefer to have
a job, but rebuilding Dutch society to eliminate the endemic age-ism is
too long-term a project for me to tackle.

I get mean about other peoples situations.

http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger_index.html

The US produces an immense amount of food, and dumps a lot of it on the
international market, to the disadvantage of farmers in a number of
third world economies.

Combine that with the observation that some 13.5 million households in
the U.S.A. are "food insecure" and 4.4 million are so insecure as to
qualify as "hungry" by the US Department of Agriculture's rather
coservative criteria, and it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that
your country is not run as well as it might be.

A spot of justice, mercy, or at least enlightened self-interest would
seem to be called for.

Sorry to be mean on Christmas Day, but 13.5 million American households
could use a bit more Christmas spirit. all the year round.

--
Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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