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From: Paul Speed
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 00:00

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Patrick Rondon (praxim@prodigy.net) wrote:
: > Funny how all this sympathy/mourning/greivance/etc. can be directed in
: > such massive waves at some royal bint who dies drunk and in the arms of
: > some strange man and a vehicle driven by some sauced-up chauffeur. 
: > 
: > Meanwhile, over 400 Angolan women and children were brutally slaughtered
: > (the very same day Princess Di kissed the wall at 200kph no less) by
: > fundamentalist terrorists. When does all the outrage and sorrow for them
: > come in do you figure? Oh, that's right...they weren't royalty. 

: The saying "When one man dies, it's a tradgedy. When 500 die, it's a
: statistic" comes to mind.

	Right.  For whatever reason millions of people die every day, from 
old age, disease, car crashed, over doses, starvation, suicide, falling 
off of a cliff, etc.  It doesn't make me any less sad when my grandmother 
passes away or something.  The closer someone is to you the more it 
affects you.  Some people take celbrities into that fold, and feel a 
tragic loss when they die.  Some don't.

	-Paul

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From: keys@mnsinc.com (Paul Speed)
Subject: Re: Original game concept?
Date: 1997/09/07
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