Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site pur-ee.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!ecn-ee!kechkayl From: kechkayl@ecn-ee.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Starvation: The Rebuttal - (nf) Message-ID: <1531@pur-ee.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Feb-84 08:24:30 EST Article-I.D.: pur-ee.1531 Posted: Fri Feb 3 08:24:30 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Feb-84 04:35:23 EST Sender: notes@pur-ee.UUCP Organization: Electrical Engineering Department , Purdue University Lines: 11 #R:ihuxl:-87600:ecn-ee:13400004:000:325 ecn-ee!kechkayl Feb 3 04:13:00 1984 Hmm... A little pretentious, but well worth answering. I think the main issue here is the fact that if we help the starving people of the world (temporarily), we also hurt ourselves (permanently). I do not think the American people as a whole have the altruism necessary to do this. Thomas Ruschak ecn-ee!kechkayl