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From: anthro@ut-ngp.UUCP (Michael Fischer)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: two of Kulawiec's
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Date: Thu, 23-Aug-84 00:53:46 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 23 00:53:46 1984
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I am not a serious advocate of the "how come..." theory, but will point out
that little of the suffering of man has anything to do with man (though I
agree that any is too much). Far more people have died of disease, hunger,     
accidents, etc. than any people inflicted harm.  Ditto for pain.  Until this
century, a perfectably acceptable life span was 50 years in the "civilized"
world (true today for the third world), and throughout most of human existance,
30 to 40 years was very reasonable/typical.   Until this century infant 
mortality ranged from 30 to 50 percent and up (also true today in the third
world).  Free will has little to do with these deaths, and if they are to
provide do-gooders something to do, they should get doing, because they are
not keeping their part up.

I would like to add an unrelated  (I think) note.  I think that the recent
stand that was made by the R. admin. on population control is unfortuate,
and deserves the support on no one in our country.  It is not reasonable
for us to sit here in our relatively deserted country putting stumbling
blocks before people who are, or will be in the near future, struggling
for their very existance.  To relate this unrelated note:  where is the
free will when we try to run their show.  It is not just a simple case of
"donations", but can spread to policy because we also control the debts
of these countries.  It would be wise to be cautious in our application
of power from these debts, lest we suffer the same fate in the future when
our foreign debt is sufficent to allow others to control us.

Michael Fischer   anthro@utngp