Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
[snip]
> What most don't realize is that there are no human beings to spare.
[snip]
Shakespeare's Falstaff referred to "food for powder",
when applying cost effectiveness considerations to
military recruiting.
A while ago I listened to a piece on NPR about
why the Russians were concerned about casualties
in the Chechnya War, whereas for centuries Russia
has had a reputation for applying Shakespeare's
idea:
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/etc.html#fn27
What changed their feelings? The fact that today many
Russian families have only one child and therefore
they do not have any children to spare.
It seems to me to be an iron law that
The more there are the less each is worth
I don't like it, but I don't see any way around this truth.
Do you?
I once slightly modified an IBM morale-boosting
slogan (1978, Poughkeepsie):
You are the *in*difference.
Yours in [the fantasy of...] individuality....
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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