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There is a current school of "thought?" that has been characterized by
the phrase "the victim is to blame." It has been very popular in
American legal circles as a very useful line of defense when all other
lines of defense for the undefensible have been exhausted. Like the line
below it works best by the selected use of facts, which while true, are
incomplete.
> E:
> At nearly 300 million in population we
> account for 5% of the world population of 6 billion, but use nearly 25% or
> the world's energy supplies.
Bad, bad, people.
If we complete this string of facts we find;
The US with 5% of the world's people using 25% of the world's energy
supply produces 54% of the world's goods and services.
Or
95% of the world's people using 75% of the world's energy supply (not to
mention the proponderance of the physical space and resources) produces
46% of the world's goods and services.
So.........
At the start of the day your people and my people go out to shovel grain
from one pile to another. And we all agree that for each shovelful
moved it's reasonable that each individual get keep 2 grains for their
own subsistence. I use 5 people and move over half the pile. You use 95
people and move the rest. Which individuals will have more grain to take
home at the end of the day? Is it wrong that they have more? And day in
day out the 5 try to show you how to shovel better and when your
families are hungry give you some of their grain. When your children die
of starvation surely it is the fault of these evil 5. If we kill them
and take their grain then no one will ever starve again.
3WD
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