Chen Yi's plant

[Oleg Vasiliev]

>One of the difficulties here is the standards by which people are judged.
>In Australia ignorance of the law is no defence in a court of law and the
>importer is the guilty party. But why should we judge others by our
>standards. As Duncan so clearly pointed out life itself is a struggle for
>many of the Chinese. Would you protect an Arisaema or plant food for your
>family. I know the decision that is taken in Australia, we have raped as
>high a percentage of our country as any one else. Salvage operations have
>my unqualified support. If I was Chinese, had a product that was in heavy
>demand from overseas, then I would probably supply. After all we in the
>ADVANCED countries are supposed to know it all.

>What should be happening here is we judge ourselves by our standards, but
>judge the suppliers by their standards.

I agree with Greg with one exemption: I would prefer do net divide countries for
ADVANCED and NOT. We know from history what happen when one nation
imagine oneself as ADVANCED and will judge others by her standards.
War in Kosovo is a good example as ADVANCED nations force-feed with
bombs NON ADVANCED.

Oleg


Oleg Vasiliev, Ph.D
Washington University School of Medicine
Department of Ophthalmology, Campus Box 8096
660 South Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110 USA



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