lawns?

	Nothing like throwing a amtch into a dynamite warehouse!!!

	Lawns, a problem. I agree with most of what I've heard. But I'm a
little concerned with people who will knowingly join an association with
published rules and then decide for themselves that they don't want those
rules. Why did they join?
	We have people here that move onto a street that obviously had more
than residential traffic when they bought the place. Then a year ore two
later they're down at the city hall saying, hey this is dangerous. Put out
some speed bumps. Why do they think they got such a good price when they
bought?
	Fifty years ago I was asked to join a professional fraternity. I
was presented with a paper to sign that had a bold-faced statement at the
beginning, an anti-Semitic clause. I handed the paper back to them saying I
couldn't join with that clause being there (I'm a Norwegian-American
atheist!). They said, Join us and help us change it. I said, No that would
be wrong. You change it first and then I'll join. It is not right, in my
eyes, to join an organization with the purpose of changing it. If you can't
accept it the way it is, then don't join! The beautiful ending to this tale
is that two years later a Jewish friend asked me to join and I did!

	But when you get right down to the nub of it, these are very small
problems.    There is only one real problem in the world and it causes all
the rest.   Population.    I don't know any acceptable way to change it
other than education and that may not be fast enough! Why do we have a
problem with water?   People!   Why do we have a problem with food?
People   Why do we have to invade pristine areas with "civilization"?
People.   Why do we have air, ocean, land, grond water pollution?   People.

	I'm a chemist. When you rail against chemicals you forget what
things were like without them. Do you really yearn for the times when small
pox could nearly wipe out a small town?  Do you you really yearn for the
times when a man had to use three wives to get the twelve children he
needed to run the farm?  Several of these children wouldn't make it. I find
in my family the same name used twice after the first one died. How much
food would be on your table if there wasn't the pest and disease
discouragement that chemicals bring? Is this good? I don't know. But I do
know we have gotten ourselves out on a limb that is going to be difficult
to back off of.

	Why do we do research to improve yields and nutritonal value of
crops to feed the hungry when they will just breed more to get back into
the same pinch? Hunger cannot be cured until population is limited in some
acceptable way.

	I'm 77 in April. That wasn't unheard of in olden days. I had a
great grandmother that died in 1913 at the age of 95. But in those days not
too many people saw 77 much less 95. There was a lot of infant mortality
and women dying after childbirth. We have through medical techiques and
"chemicals" managed to expand enormously the number of people that can
reach such ages. And I for one am grateful! I wish it were not needed but
the fact is, it is needed. Ask the person on chemotherapy if they are glad
these chemicals exist.
	Chemists find the structure of things like morphine. And then they
tinker with it trying to find out what part of that structure does the good
things (pain relief) and what part does the bad things (addiction etc).
Then they try to make similar molecules that emphasize the good parts and
minimize the bad parts. Is this bad? I don't think so. There probably is a
lot of "bad" research that is not advancing mankind but catering to its
weaknesses. I'm sorry about that. I guess it comes with being   HUMAN!!
	---Chas---
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