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To: cosmicforce who wrote (91467)	12/15/2004 1:34:40 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Millions of people die each year from hundreds of different ailments, diseases, mistakes, deliberate actions, and accidents that are theoretically preventable or avoidable. Therefore, we should pull out of Iraq and forget about terrorism, too. Small potatoes and not worth the money. LOL

To: cosmicforce who wrote (91467)	12/15/2004 2:25:24 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Considering how over populated the world is maybe war and poorly trained nurses and doctors is a good start. "The enemies of the Industrial Revolution—its displaced persons—were of the kind that had fought human progress for centuries, by every means available. In the Middle Ages, their weapon was the fear of God. In the nineteenth century, they still invoked the fear of God—for instance, they opposed the use of anesthesia on the grounds that it defies God's will, since God intended men to suffer. When this weapon wore out, they invoked the will of the collective, the group, the tribe. But since this weapon has collapsed in their hands, they are now reduced, like cornered animals, to baring their teeth and their souls, and to proclaiming that man has no right to exist—by the divine will of inanimate matter. The demand to "restrict" technology is the demand to restrict man's mind. It is nature—i.e., reality—that makes both these goals impossible to achieve. Technology can be destroyed, and the mind can be paralyzed, but neither can be restricted. Whenever and wherever such restrictions are attempted, it is the mind—not the state—that withers away." AYN RAND