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>At 4:47 PM +1000 10/8/01, Spectro wrote:
>>When *there* is 'freedom, safety, peace, and prosperity for all', the world's
>>dwindling wealth will be far more equitably distributed. That means all us
>>Westerners will need to come down quite  a few notches. Otherwise, forget it.
>>This, as I tried vainly to explain in earlier related posts, is the root of
>>the whole problem.
>
>What a stubbornly negative view.  Why does anyone  have to "come
>down"?   Would it not be better to hope those who want to could come
>up?   Flagellate yourself all you want but don't expect me to join
>you.

Call it what you like, in the end it is a matter of relativity...  If
you have wealthy people, you will, by necessity, have impoverished
people and those who 'come up' do so at the expense of others.  Look
around you...