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To: Rational who wrote (383)	1/3/1998 10:33:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9980

Sankar, not to belittle problems we have in this country, let me remind you that in the last 6 years 60,000 innocent Algerians have been killed by extremists for a "good cause" (probably the name of God, as is usually the case with fanaticism). I will not count the deaths in Sudan, they are countless. Let me remind you that while it might be safe to walk the street in Bombay, there is still spoty practice of compulsive suttee (while outlawed), let me remind you that 70% of the young women in Egypt are forced to undergo genital mutilation at puberty (also oulawed, just recently). I may also remind you that you do not want to get caught in a Japanese jail, if you are in, you must be guilty of something, you rarely get out. Sure we pay a price for our freedom, but I do not think that I know any other country where citizen have greater freedom (why, in Switzerland, if you live in an appartment building you cannot bathe after , I believe 10 PM, and if you do, you can be assured, so I was told, that the police will be fetched by your neighbors). It has been sometime since we heard of the body leaching therapies for "criminals" in Singapore. And whi is talking about severing a hand if you were caught stealing a loaf of bread (Saudi Arabia). Zeev

To: Rational who wrote (383)	1/3/1998 11:06:00 PM
From: Esvida	Respond to of 9980

Sankar, It is unfortunate that my post was misunderstood as an attempt to assess the value of living in any country. I was only trying to point out that there are costs associated with setting up processes to make decisions. This exists for countries and for companies. As we move forward, decision processes will be more and more critical as a competitive issue. I had no intention whatsoever to compare the quality of life here to anywhere else on Earth. That is very subjective and there is no common definition for what QOL means. On the extreme we have seen the US government and the Chinese government exchanged accusations of lack of human rights in each other's country. Let's leave it at that and do not take this discussion in that direction. -Al