[lit-ideas] Re: Suicide in Europe
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2010 08:19:03 -0600
Damnit, Palma, how many times have I told you -- English! ENGLISH!!!!!
Christ, you're going to drive me to suicide.
Mike Geary
Memphis
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:07 PM, palma <palma@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> quacuno alla svelta mi spiega, questa termini e' l'amante di chi?
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> On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, John Wager wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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. . . .
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>> Or maybe I just don't understand statistics. . . .
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>> Lawrence Helm wrote:
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>>> . . . .
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
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