Chen Yi's plant

[Greg Ruckert]

Hi Oleg,
Australian humour, I was being sarcastic about the term ADVANCED.
Greg Ruckert
Australian Areae Collection
http://www.ezi-learn.com.au/areae/default.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Oleg Vasiliev <ovasiliev at GO.COM>
To: ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL <ARISAEMA-L at NIC.SURFNET.NL>
Date: Saturday, 27 March 1999 16:46
Subject: Chen Yi's plant


>>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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