Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Steve Brooks
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:23:21

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

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> A couple of hundred dead = Thousand upon thousand dead. Hardly
> compares. More people probably die of cancer a day in the US. You
> live in the richest nation in the world with the greatist ability to
> look after the people displaced. The tsunami not only wiped out
> thousands of people but completely wrecked the infrastructure of some
> of the poorest countries in the area. These were people with fuck all
> to begin with and they lost everything with little chance of getting
> it back.

Suffering is suffering. I don't see much point in drawing up some kind of 
disaster league table.

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SB

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