>From joeh@towel.wpd.sgi.com Tue Sep 6 13:04:48 1994 Received: from sgigate.sgi.com (sgigate.SGI.COM [192.82.208.1]) by csf.Colorado.EDU (8.6.9/8.6.9/CNS-3.5) with ESMTP id NAA01800 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 1994 13:04:43 -0600 Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay.sgi.com [192.26.51.36]) by sgigate.sgi.com (940519.SGI.8.6.9/8.6.4) with SMTP id MAA15091; Tue, 6 Sep 1994 12:06:02 -0700 Received: from towel.wpd.sgi.com by relay.sgi.com via SMTP (920330.SGI/920502.SGI) for @sgigate.sgi.com:ppn@csf.colorado.edu id AA09463; Tue, 6 Sep 94 12:06:00 -0700 Received: by towel.wpd.sgi.com (931110.SGI/911001.SGI) for @relay.sgi.com:ppn@csf.colorado.edu id AA08108; Tue, 6 Sep 94 12:04:40 -0700 From: joeh@towel.wpd.sgi.com (Joe Heinrich) Message-Id: <9409061204.ZM8106@towel.wpd.sgi.com> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 1994 12:04:40 -0700 In-Reply-To: ROPER DON "re: population/fertility" (Sep 6, 8:38) References: <199409061438.IAA23352@csf.Colorado.EDU> Mabell: 415.390.4347 Ddial Xface: FFFF_FFFF_FFFF_FFFF(modulo zed) 64 bits o' black Personal_Life: Virtually Virtuous Mime.Audio: MmmwwoooweeeeEEEoooweeeeeOOOO [makes you feel like you're RIGHT there!] Pabell: 004 000 008dot005 005 009dot008 007 007 000(sub9) Ohhnoooo: It's not poetry, it's Boot PROM code! Oops: Iobject!Iobject! Geek_Alert: I once spoke to Kibo (over e-mail!) X-Mailer: Z-Mail-SGI (3.0S.1026 26oct93 MediaMail) To: Subject: Re: population/fertility Cc: joeh@towel.wpd.sgi.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Okay, let's all go back to being poor and starving in Calcutta. My, wasn't *that* fun! On Sep 6, 8:38, ROPER DON wrote: > Subject: re: population/fertility > > I suppose I'm a "population-suppressor" but I would like to shift the > burden of adjustment onto the rich, like there are too many rich > folks, it seems to me. Please define "rich" -- anyone making more money than you're earning, or do you include yourself in the category? And on what basis do you define it as a "rich versus poor" problem-- simplism of thought? I submit that, like the floral denudation of Nepal, you have to judge each case on its individual merits. > Henwood (and many others) want > to focus on the irresponsible-resource-use of the rich and persons > like myself want to focus on the number-of-rich-people. > <>-- End of excerpt from ROPER DON Focus on "the number-of-rich-people" to do what with them? My point is, why not deal with individual people as individuals, not as arbitrarily-affiliated members of arbitrarily-concocted classes. I mean, that's what scholastic deconstruction is all about, right? --Joe -- Joe "Joe" Heinrich Tales of Silicon Valley {Internal access only, unless you can bust the firewall} Flatland: joeh@sgi.com Rotary dial: 415.390.4347 DTMF:SameAsAbove BLM Locator:Building8Lower SnailMail:MS/535, 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mt. View, CA 94043 Kill all smileys :>