On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:40 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 06:56 PM Tuesday 6/27/2006, Dave Land wrote:
Must be nice to imagine that you live in a country where a huge
majority of the population just doesn't count. Fsck the poor! They're
dragging us down! Kill 'em all and we'll have a rich people's
paradise!
Apparently my writing skills are deficient at getting my message
across.
Thanks for the reply... It may not be your writing skills that are
wanting.
It is equally likely that the brevity of your message (the value of
which
is lost to a verbal diarrheist like me) led to my concluding that your
point was "if we could just count the wealthy people in America, we'd
come
off much better!"
Which, by the way, is probably true, but it beside the point.
We can see America as a great country that is being "pulled down" by the
needy (and, especially lately, immigrants) or we can see America as a
great
country that makes sacrifices for our neediest (including wave after
wave
of immigrants who have become our backbone).
The main point was that on health and longevity, which are
significantly
affected by heredity, it is unsurprising that a study would find
different results between a homogenous population and a heterogeneous
population one part of which shares the ancestry of the other
population.
Well-stated, although it would seem that the study would also have
identified relatively homogenous populations whose hereditary traits
tend towards "shortevity", as opposed to longevity.
When it comes to those things (iow, other than genetics, which for the
moment we can't do much about after an individual is born where the
most
significant changes can be made in health and lifestyle is in areas
like
proper nutrition and good medical care, and the access to those is and
always will be greater the further up the socioeconomic ladder a
person
is. (Regardless of the implementation of any system of national health
care: there are always going to be things the rich can afford that the
poor cannot.
Some of those things are going to look a lot like necessities, and I'm
not sure there's much we can do about that. It grieves me, but I'm still
pretty sure there's not much we can do about it.
Peace,
Dave
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