ashok _ wrote:
> Its more practical attempting to provide safe drinking water than have
> a security checkpoint to save a shopping mall or teach a policeman how
> to swim.
Fair enough. Agreed. But consider this, if all the people who need safe
drinking water are killed by anti social elements or war, what use would
the water be? Not that we are not entitled to safe drinking water. One
assumes that the people living in India (over a billion of them) are
actually able to find water to drink.
> I know more people who are dead or have suffered from
> water-borne infections and malaria than from an exploding bomb.
>
Again, for argument's sake, we are lucky enough to belong to a
generation that has not seen major wars. But that does not mean WWI and
WWII were figments of anybody's imagination.
> Personally, I don't drink water anymore, I have been subsisting on
> alcohol for the last decade.
>
I like that policy. :-) Wish I could afford to do that.
> Even the guy dropping the bomb is praying very hard - clear opposing
> prayers cannot be answered together.
>
Of course, prayers are nothing if we do not follow up with our action to
fulfill those prayers. Just ask the guy who's dropping the bombs. What
are we doing towards fulfilling our prayers to be safe?
