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To: kumar who wrote (97323)	5/3/2003 4:57:04 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Kumara, good ideas are not a function of numbers. While democracy is currently a temporal religion, it's really just mob rule. The fact that Helen Clark represents only 4 million people, doesn't mean she's wrong. If voting or numbers could determine things, Einstein could have just put E=MC2 to the vote to decide whether it was right or not. He could have given it to the electorate to decide on the Gravitational Constant. As you know, that's not how things work. An idea's truth is nothing to do with numbers agreeing or disagreeing. Leadership is nothing to do with numbers. Helen Clark is, this time, right. Although some people seem to think that those of the opposing political spectrum are always wrong, such an autonomic, Mindless Zombie response is unbecoming of sentient beings. Where Helen Clark fails to figure out the details, is that the United Nations in its present form is very much Law of the Jungle, which she decries. Syria and Iraq having a say was a joke. France having a superior position to Japan is a joke. India being an also-ran is absurd. Mqurice PS: <Thanks for a good laugh. NZ is 3.5M humans, about 70M sheep. > You've obviously mistaken some people for sheep. There are 15% more people than you said and 15% fewer sheep. Mathematicians will moan that that doesn't make sense. Too bad. Neither did the claims of only 3% or 4% Sars fatalities when it was obvious that the mortality is about 7%, but everyone went on quoting 4% for a month.