Re: Racism in Parliament!

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From: Tom Davies
Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 00:00

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Paul Titze VK2THN [HACK.AU.] wrote:
> 
> tlim8 wrote: 
> Can you explain to me what is fundamentally wrong with extinguishment? Lets look
> at nature, hundreds of species are extinguished every day as we speak, no one seems
> to care much.

Incidentally, the highest observed annual rate of extinction of species
is one.

> Cultures have and will be extinguished, it is part of our history and
> we should live with that, hence we are not brutes, courses of events are simply
> following their natural path, the aboriginies had 40000 years to prepare themselves
> for an invasion, they lost, they suffer the consequences. It's cruel world.

Maybe the arguments for making science undergraduates take a humanities
course or two are stronger than I thought. Or perhaps I've lost my
appreciation of deadpan humour...

Tom

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Subject: Re: Racism in Parliament!
Date: 1997/05/29
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