What's your point? That it's foolish to care about them or that no one else
does?
Mark
At 11:59 PM 9/25/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>> According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),
>about 35,615 children died from conditions of starvation on September 11,
>2001
>
>RELEVANT STATISTICS:
>
>>* Victims: 35,615 children (source: FAO)
>
>>* Where: poor countries
>
>>* Special TV programs: none
>
>* Newspaper articles: none
>
>* Messages from the president: none
>
>* Solidarity acts: none
>
>* Minutes of silence: none
>
>* Victims mournings: none
>
>* Organized forums: none
>
>* Pope messages: none
>
>* Alert level: zero
>
>>* Military mobilization: none
>
>
>The real Mystics.
>
>Ah, the self-flagellating Western consciousness....which we managed to
>achieve through centuries of intestine wars and Papal interventions. We
>too are ruled over by promises of future Paradises in our decision-making,
>our restrained actions.
>
>So we blame our own ancestors, our philosophy, our Economy, so we make a
>systematic vivisection of our faults, we espose our sinnful chests, we
>weep, feel self-repulsion, repent and flagellate our flesh to punish and
>mortify our vicious mind.
>
>Although I believe we have not completely failed in making our communities
>and single individuals sensible towards the Third World ‘s poverty, and
>even if our children in school are thought these matters in full respect
>of all the new humanitarian syllabuses, at present these statistics still
>represent, in my knowledge, a concern of mainly social workers, socialist
>activists and doctors.
>
> All those children dying of starvation have really almost nobody (a part
>the Red Cross) fighting for them.
>
>
>Erminia
>
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