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Pastimes : SARS - what next? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (375)	5/2/2003 6:36:33 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1070

Yiwu, I'm fairly tolerant of ignorance, because I have so much of it myself, but it's scary to think that Americans with such limited knowledge are voting to decide the fate of the world, including me. With a bit of luck, the ignorant votes will neutralize each other, leaving the swing smart votes to determine electoral outcomes. The benefits of living in a vast democratic community are so great that I'm okay with forgoing the advantages of more freedom. Being a prisoner of the collective isn't totally bad. But I would NOT want to be a prisoner of the Indian collective. They've voted for Karl Marx since turfing out the British Crown. Bad choice! Democracy with a passport seems a good combination. Heaps of people have abandoned New Zealand and gone to Oz, USA, Canada, China and elsewhere. Kiwis are like Sars - they spread everywhere given half a chance. Mqurice