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To: cosmicforce who wrote (4715)	2/3/2001 11:59:36 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Why on earth should we help other people, no matter where they live? Because we can imagine what it could be like to be someone else, and there but for chance, or luck, or the grace of God (if you believe in one) go you. I think what the post you responded to might have been addressing, in a unstated way, is that resources are limited. And they are. IMO, because we have a social contract- we have a duty to our citizens here to help them escape poverty and ignorance. If we fail to reach out our hand to our fellow citizens, we are abrogating our contract and making our country a more ugly and inhospitable place. I think we need to do what we can for other countries- but because I definitely live by contract theory, my priority would be to save our own citizens first.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (4715)	2/4/2001 12:21:52 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

There is literally no end to death and suffering in this world, sorry. Bland has indeed been fortunate. He has stated as much on SI many times. Your example is simply not going to happen. Bland is not at fault or responsible for that, no more than he is responsible or to be credited for the accident of his birth (which was not entirely an accident, but a product of the lives of a whole heritage of prior individuals). We (U.S. taxpayers) do not have the duty to provide comfortable, risk-free sexual intercourse for the nations of the third world. We simply don't. No more than we have the obligation to provide them with Barry White albums.