Subj : Re: Larry King
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Jim Larson
Date : Wed Aug 31 2005 21:24:34

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Steve Brooks wrote:

> 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.
> 

(Our hurricanes can kick your hurricanes' asses.)

-- 
Jim

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