Re: Tuberculosis (was Re: `capitalist' character values)

From: Miriam English (miriam@werple.net.au)
Date: Mon Jul 23 2001 - 22:48:55 MDT


At 12:02 PM 23/07/2001 -0700, James Rogers wrote:
>The problem is being caused almost entirely by the virtually unchecked
>influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico, which is practically being
>encouraged by the Federal government these days.

The problem is being caused by those bloody people....
oh wait, the problem is caused by spitting (which in most countries is
actually illegal for that reason)...
oh wait, the problem is caused by unpasteurised milk....
oh wait, the problem is caused by antibiotic resistance (because of overuse
of those antibiotics in the developed world)...
oh wait, the problem is caused by bacterial evolution...
oh wait, the problem is caused by...

Be careful of affixing a single cause to complex problems. You run the risk
of falling into dogmatic traps.

         - miriam

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