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To: Chuck Bleakney who wrote (3881)	5/26/1998 11:44:00 AM
From: peter michaelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

To add to the cold-hearted point of view, one of Clark Worswick's books discusses a couple of Indian famines in the 19th century in which perhaps one third (from my dim memory) of the population perished. After that, the British decided to mobilize transportation and other resources to prevent another widespread famine. Let's see, that would add up to another 30 crore people today if they had survived and reproduced as per India's growth since then. Is famine relief a good thing? BTW, the famine in North Korea appears to continue unabated to the point where 500,000 people are now said to be 'missing'. Aside from the horrible suffering, surely this must be having a dramatic impact on the South Korean psychology and markets. Peter

To: Chuck Bleakney who wrote (3881)	5/26/1998 11:54:00 AM
From: HH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9980

Chuck, with all due respect. As humans , lets hope and pray that we dont create another Hitler, or another Stalin or another Saddam( wait a minute,we already did) or we dont ever have chaos and nationalistic dictators dont come to power. Force and the threat of force is a fact of life. Man's inhumanity towards man is horrifying when you look at history. I am not nuclear weapons defender but they have played a significant role in shaping the world. How many lives were saved after Hiroshima? Were any bloody clashes with Russia avoided? The Collapse of the Soviet empire has made the world different. Nuclear weapons have played a Major role in our history and it is likely that they will continue in the future, HH PS, Since this is an econimc forum, lets cool it. We wont resolve this issue. Let's show how peaceable we really are.