[lit-ideas] Re: Suicide in Europe
- From: palma <palma@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 00:07:50 -0500 (EST)
quacuno alla svelta mi spiega, questa termini e' l'amante di chi?
On Sat,
20 Nov 2010, John Wager wrote:
All I know about statistics and suicide is that in the U.S. one is more
likely to die by suicide than homicide, and that the chances of being killed
by someone else with a handgun are FAR lower than the chances of killing
one's self with a handgun.
So, statistically speaking, it seems we are all much safer walking the
streets at night rather than at home in our own bedroom with that pistol in
the drawer. . . .
Or maybe I just don't understand statistics. . . .
Lawrence Helm wrote:
. . . .
Of course Thornton's "suicide" has most to do with the reduction of the
production of children and the importation of immigrants to make up the
short fall so the European elderly can continue their retirement
entitlements. A lot that is in his book seems a rehashing of material
I've read elsewhere. My own tangent was based more on books I read about
Europe (including those by Tony Judt) after World War II than Thornton's
reference to actual suicide, that is, I had been thinking about that for
some time. Why the West has bifurcated, Western Europe one way and
America (or Anglo-America?) another is something I have an ongoing
interest in.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
/begin/read__>sig.file: postal address
palma
University of KwaZulu-Natal Philosophy
3rd floor of Memorial Tower Building
Howard College Campus
Durban 4041
South Africa
Tel off: [+27] 031 2601591 (sec: Mrs. Yolanda Hordyk) [+27] 031-2602292
Fax [+27] 031-2603031
mobile 07 62 36 23 91 calling from overseas +[27] 76 2362391
EMAIL: palma@xxxxxxxx
EMAIL: palma@xxxxxxxxxx
MY OFFICE IS A290@Mtb
*only when in Europe*: inst. J. Nicod
29 rue d'Ulm
f-75005 paris france
________
This e-mail message (and attachments) is confidential, and/or privileged and is
intended for the
use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail
you must not copy,
distribute, take any action in reliance on it or disclose it to anyone. Any
confidentiality or
privilege is not waived or lost by reason of mistaken delivery to you.
This entity is not responsible for any information not related to the business
of this entity. If you
received this e-mail in error please destroy the original and notify the sender.
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ratio, enim, nisi judex universalis esse deberet, frustra singulis datur.
[ _Quaestiones Naturales_, Adelard of Bath ]
Signora granda, testa che massa
massa ne passa, che quasi schissa,
Dia dei sostegni de cese e palassi
Dia de le taje che su ne tien fissi
Dia de le onde che le ne fa grassi,
ne ingrassa de ogni grassia, Dia Venessia -
aàh Venessia aàh Venàssia aàh Venùsia
Andrea Zanzotto, Filò, (Sezione: Recitativo Veneziano)
Other related posts:
