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To: Skipper who wrote (15430)	1/16/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Now you already know we disagree on politics, Skipper! For example, Alex pointed out provocatively a few hundred posts back that if we had not gotten civilized and human life was still governed totally by the rule of survival of the fittest, he wouldn't have certain inherited diseases in his family, as the lions or some other savage beast would have eaten the carriers before they were able to pollute his gene pool. But where would that actually get us, really? We would still be total savages. The development of science and medicine allow us to live longer. Would you want to just forget all of that? If we then have science and medicine, it seems very cruel to deny medical care to people simply because they come from cultures which are still primitive, or are in the lower classes in more civilized societies. Talking totally logically, it is absolutely illogical to keep sending food to countries with famines, to deliver western medical care to babies and small children in third world countries, or treat AIDS in these places. They are overpopulated for the food supply, and the overpopulation and the poverty create poor sanitation which makes these peoples very vulnerable to disease and early death. However, politics at the end of the twentieth century, for most of us anyway, also includes some sense of compassion. Most people have very little tolerance for all the graphic pictures and films of human suffering. So your consequences of the truth, as you would call it, include absolutely logical but harsh ways of looking at the human condition. Do you really believe totally just in logic, in complicated situations like this one? Perhaps I am misunderstanding you!!!