RE: Genocide sucks

From: Paul Grant (shade999@optonline.net)
Date: Tue Aug 05 2003 - 00:57:57 MDT

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    From: owner-extropians@extropy.org [mailto:owner-extropians@extropy.org]
    On Behalf Of Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
    Subject: Re: Genocide sucks
    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:

    When I went to that site, I was expecting much, much worse. It was as
    recently as 1994 that 800,000 Tutsi died in Rwanda. I don't remember
    hearing it on the news at the time, but I was young. Do you all, I
    wonder, recall any fuss about it? I can only imagine the outcry if that

    many deaths had occurred to people who were American, or British, or
    German, or, well, to be blunt about it, white.

    Now all we have to do is halt the fifty-five million annual non-genocide

    casualties, and we'll have made some real progress.

    ---
    well you can put me on the list of people who are pissed.
    I hate two things in life: ignorance, and needless suffering.
    I keep thinking, there has *got* to be a way to do things smarter.
    omard-out
    


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