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03-27-03
It means that the current attitude most countries have is "If it doesn't affect me, I don't care." It's ironic that this attitude governs the UN, since it runs contrary to that group's purpose.
I agree on your second point, although not on the third. Is it a better alternative to let them starve?
When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.
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