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Re: Brashears on Hanson
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Subject: Re: Brashears on Hanson
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From: brshears@whale.st.usm.edu (Harold Brashears)
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Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 19:10:54 GMT
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Article: 16904 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones) wrote for all to see:
>On Tue, 03 Dec 1996 16:04:03 GMT, brshears@whale.st.usm.edu (Harold
>Brashears) wrote:
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>>I still say however, that Jay has some justification, but as I noted,
>>the assumptions are so overwhelming I think his definition may only
>>apply to a fishbowl, or some similar sized environment.
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>Harold,
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>A fishbowl lives on external fishfood as Earth relies on the supply of
>sunlight.
I'm sorry, my point, not well made, is that as long as you accept
Jay's assumptions, he is correct. Unfortunately, those assumptions to
not apply in the real world.
Regards, Harold
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"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the
persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general
good, are apt to be at complete war with one another."
---John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women, ch. 4 (1869).
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