"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."
Pretty hard to compare a natural disease to the intentional killing of millions of people. "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?" Yes it is bad. And some death by malaria is preventable. In some African countries medical supplies are confiscated by rebels/gov't officials/bandits/etc so a profit can be made from selling them. These are certainly preventable and despicable, but do not compare to the wanton extermination of millions of people just because they have different heritage, a different religion, or different opinions "Communism as a death carrier though? Not buying it. It has no monopoly on death." Nope. It does not have a monopoly on death. It would seem it lends itself to mass killings for the benefit of whole, but it is not responsible just because it is communism. Maybe it's vulnerable to violence because communism aspires to be the utopia you mention. "Utopia is hard to pull off, I'll give you that." What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it his heaven. - Friedrich Höderlin J ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:325798 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
