Didn't GWB save like 10 million people from dying from malaria?
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 5:35 PM, denstar <valliants...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: >> >> "So a list of failed democracies would prove that democracy is a failed >> ideology?" >> >> It would be an interesting list. Throw in Republics too. > > The point being, communism doesn't kill people... people kill people. > > And mosquitoes. > > Er. Infectious diseases? =) > >> >> "Sure. And malaria kills X amount of kids every minute." >> >> Yes, and malaria is an act of nature. >> >> I believe the reference was to more intentional acts of killing. >> >> You know like: >> >> >> National Socialist Hitler's genocide of 6 million Jews, >> Stalin's forced starvation of 6 to 7 million Ukrainians. >> Stalin's great purge of the communist party which killed between 700k and >> 1.5 million. >> Che's hand in killing over 10,000 dissidents in Cuba in the 1960's. >> Mao's Great Leap forward which killed 20 million people >> Khmer Rouge killing 2 million in 4 years. >> >> While anyone dieing of malaria is a shame, it isn't in the same league. > > You mean numerically? I'm pretty sure that malaria has been a problem > for a while now. I'd bet the total number of deaths from malaria > dwarfs your whole list, combined. Even if we limit the malaria time > frame to the last 10 years. > > Hrm... intention. Morality is an interesting deal. > > If you see someone dieing in the street, and you do nothing to help > them, when you could have... is that Bad? > > Eh. > > Communism as a death carrier though? Not buying it. It has no > monopoly on death. > > Utopia is hard to pull off, I'll give yo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:325794 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
