Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!trwatf!rlgvax!raghu From: raghu@rlgvax.UUCP (Raghu Raghunathan) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Spraying Blood Message-ID: <696@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 15:49:58 EDT Article-I.D.: rlgvax.696 Posted: Thu Jul 11 15:49:58 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 12:08:51 EDT References: <153@pyuxii.UUCP> <1228@mnetor.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 19 > "official american religion" is that an american life is the most sacred > thinng in the world (if you don't believe that, witness the current hysteria > about this little hyjacking). It is only fair that if the US want to attack > them back, they attack them using their religion too. > Sophie Quigley American life is perceived as the most "sacred thing in the world" to use you own words, only within America. And the "current hysteria about this little hijacking" is entirely the creation of the American Media. If you lived in a place like India, for example, you would find that the crash of Air India flight made headlines for several days (weeks?) whereas the TWA hijacking received very little TV coverage (and that too as a filler when they didn't have any other news) Almost any country in the world regards it's own citizen as the most important people in the world (America is no exception). Exactly how much a life is worth depends on which part of the globe you live in.