[lbo-talk] agricultural productivity

[Chris Doss]

James is a genocidal monster who has murdered billions, nay trillions, of his potential progeny. In fact, when he turns left rather than right when walking down the street, he has murdered the entire potential universe that would have come into being if he had turned right. He murdered an entire universe, casually, without even an afterthought! Next to James, Annihilator of Universes, Hitler was a mere amoeba.

Methinks James should learn the difference between "actual" and "possible."
 

----- Original Message ----
From: Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
Sent: Tue, April 20, 2010 1:27:04 AM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] agricultural productivity

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 9:09 AM, James Heartfield <
Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

But you are not listening, Alan. Those people would not be alive without
> increased output of grains and other foodstuffs. The population increased
> from 2 billion to 6.6 billion from 1900 to 2010. World grain output rose
> from 400 million tons in 1900 to 1.9 billion tons in 1998 - without that,
> those 4.6 billion would either have starved, or never been born.
>
> When I said that they had better lives than they would have without
> increased productivity in agriculture, I was taking it as read that it is
> better to be alive than dead. Is it really your position that people would
> have been better off not being born?
>

I trust, then, that you're adamantly pro-life?

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"Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen
lytlað."
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