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Old 01-13-2007, 11:24 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Keith View Post
This is possibly a bit callous, but it seems to me that we devalue individual human lives by having so darn many of them!.

When statistics like "36,000 people per day die of starvation" are not only possible but a minor blip on the radar, there's something really, really wrong!

If the human race truly considers the quality of individual human life important, then why do we keep producing more people than we can care for?
Someone should make a list of 36000 celebrities and say "If all these people were born in worse conditions, they would be dead today."
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