Posted by Neredbojias on 10/08/05 04:58

With neither quill nor qualm, Luigi Donatello Asero quothed:

>
> "Neredbojias" <neredbojias@neredbojias.com> skrev i meddelandet
> news:MPG.1dafa4d42ee40753989900@news.intergate.com...
> > With neither quill nor qualm, Luigi Donatello Asero quothed:
> >
> > > > > What about colonialism?
> > > > > What about the opium war?
> > > > > Did it not affect China?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Probably.
> > > You think that the opium war probably affected China.
> > > Now, tell me,
> > > how many inhabitants live and need eat in China?
> >
> > A bit over 1 billion.
>
> Where did you get these figures?

The U.S. Department of the Exterior.

> Aren´t they over 1,3 billions including Chinese people living outside China?
> In any case they are very many, the country is large and Chinese and
> Japanese seem to compete a lot with each other.
> Do you know many Japanese people, by the way?

Not anyone I've talked to recently but there was this mechanic at where
I used to work who was pretty sociable. He could cuss better (in
English) than just about any other human being on the planet.

>
> > > How large is China?
> >
> > About as big as the USA. How many USAians are there?
>
> To be honest, I do not know how many USAians ( Americans who live in the
> USA, I suppose)
> live in China.

I meant USAians living in the USA. Anyway, it's about (-notice the
"about") one-quarter of a billion, meaning Americans definitely have
more farting room.

In Sweden, have you have any lingonberry pie or cake or even marmalade
yet? I use to get such when I was a kid. Mmmm, good!

>
> > > >Did Hitler affect Italy? Does he affect it now?
> > > Well, let´say that no country in the EU allows death penalty now
> whereas
> > > other
> > > countries, for example some States in the USA allow it.
> >
> > True. I have mixed feelings about the death penalty. Almost certainly
> > some people deserve to die but I fear that the states which permit the
> > death penalty were influenced more by financial concerns than any higher
> > conscience or credo.
>
>
> I am against death penalty. According to me death penalty is a violation of
> human rights.

I sort of agree, but I think it should be optional. Suppose a man (or
woman) commits a heinous crime and is duly convicted. He should have
the choice of either spending the rest of his life caged (-and generally
treated) like an animal or accepting a humane termination of that life
via the needle of no return. I think that incarceration is often
actually more of a rights-violation than anything else.

--
Neredbojias
Contrary to popular belief, it is believable.

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