🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3663233d.0@news.mho.net>, Melissa <Melissa9Z@Zmho.net> wrote:
>In article <73t94i$rg4@news-central.tiac.net>,
>
>What I'm suggesting is that it's fine to be missionaries and help the poor, 
>but that the RCC needs to rethink their policies of advocating things that 
>counteract those good deeds. As it is now, the left hand is helping and the 
>right hand is hurting. Why not come up with more modern policies that would 
>only help intead of making the problems worse at the same time?

It must be nice to be so certain that you can make those determinations 
about what is helpful and what isn't.

I remember when DDT was considered to be a boon to the world, not so any 
more.  The same can be said of the internal combustion engine, and many 
other "modern" advances.

I am reminded of the book "Cat's Cradle" by Vonnegut.  It has many things 
in it that are relevant.  Those that have read it will perhaps understand
that there are many ways of helping, but there are sometimes strange
methods and consequences.


Chuck Demas
Needham, Mass.

--
  Eat Healthy    |   _ _   | Nothing would be done at all,
  Stay Fit       |   @ @   | If a man waited to do it so well,
  Die Anyway     |    v    | That no one could find fault with it.
  demas@tiac.net |  \___/  | http://www.tiac.net/users/demas