Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!dartvax!karl From: karl@dartvax.UUCP (S. Delage.) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Morality traded for convenience. Message-ID: <2304@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 19:33:17 EDT Article-I.D.: dartvax.2304 Posted: Thu Aug 16 19:33:17 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 03:56:26 EDT Distribution: net.philosophy Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 18 A few days ago someone in net.abortion [I apologize for losing the reference] mentioned something about trading convenience for ``morality'', and gave examples like not donating money to some relief organisation, but rather living a little better yourself. This certainly seems true -- virtually everyone does live like that. I quote Donald Wollheim, who was quoting an anonymous book: ``The money required to provide adequate food, water, education, health, and housing for everyone in the world has been estimated at $17 billion a year. It is a huge sum of money ... about as much as the world spends on arms every two weeks. ... Perhaps the figures are a bit exaggerated.'' Maybe it would take six months. dartvax!karl karl@dartmouth