Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ames!barry From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: poor starving people Message-ID: <670@ames.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:49:27 EST Article-I.D.: ames.670 Posted: Mon Dec 3 13:49:27 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 00:49:52 EST References: <642@amd.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 23 [] From Phil Ngai: > PROPOSAL > The United States should send more food to Ethiopia, but all recipients > must consent to sterilization. > > (go on, flame me, that's what I want!) I've seen a lot of discussion of this posting, pro and con, but not *one* person has pointed out how impractical it is. When we're not even able to get food to these people, how the heck are we supposed to send thousands of medical teams to perform sterilizations??? Tell you what: I'll agree to making them all sign forms *consenting* to sterilization; then if someone like Phil wants to head over to Ethiopia to try to *enforce* the consents, he's welcome to try ;-). - From the Crow's Nest - Kenn Barry NASA-Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USENET: {dual,hao,menlo70,hplabs}!ames!barry SOURCE: ST7891