XPost: phl.media, pa.politics, phl.housing   
   From: kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu   
      
   On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:34:27 GMT, mcs  wrote:   
   >skewing my foot. Every person who is murdered affects someone else . It   
   >hurts me deeply, it reflects on our inhumanity , or inabilty to look for   
   >solutions .Acceptance of this is nothing more then acceptance of evil.   
      
   I'm just trying to point out that violence has always   
   been around us. It will continue to be as long as   
   humans are exactly as the are: still vastly under-evolved.   
      
      
   >"Karen Y Byrd"  wrote in message   
   >news:slrn3vsbiffof.6htr.kybyrd@pobox.upenn.edu...   
   >> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:05:50 GMT, mcs  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >Karen   
   >> >  You have to live here so you rationalize it the best way you can.   
   >>   
   >> I cited facts. You're just using emotion and your addiction to television   
   >> and its manner of skewing just about all reality.   
   >>   
   >> > My   
   >> >friend just showed me a tape from the early channel ten news broadcast   
   >today   
   >>   
   >> I'm not in denial about crime. But you know what? I stopped watching TV   
   >> news years ago and I feel safer. I'm not confronted by constant   
   >sensationalizing   
   >> of news which is how they pump up rating and make people afraid to even   
   >> leave their homes.   
   >>   
   >> >and they had a special , crime , violent crime is up over 21 percent  for   
   >> >year , more in last few months. 60 murders in last 60 days!   
   >>   
   >> And if  by chance you could get in a time machine and go back to mid-14th   
   >> century France you'd have to confront constant warfare,   
   >> maurading killer highwaymen, famine, the cruelty of the Roman Catholic   
   >> Church as it looked for "heretics" so they could burn and/or torture them,   
   >> and death by plague. I prefer living in the here and now, thank you!   
   >>   
   >> Danger and risk have always been part of the human condition on this   
   >> planet.   
   >>   
   >> > Oh a pregnant   
   >> >women shot two days ago, a home invastion, a woman was beaten and raped   
   >this   
   >> >morning. The quality of life in this city between pollution and snide   
   >> >attitiudes and fast driving is nothing close then what I ever saw it.   
   >People   
   >> >are getting high in many places and streets  and thus trading drugs,   
   >> >illegals (maybe the jogger?) and unemployment and .with philly losing   
   >2000   
   >> >jobs , 8 percent unemployment! and thus this should not make it more   
   >> >dangerous but it is. What are we doing ? This is the first time the happy   
   >> >news on channel ten was a bit more realistic. This is a scuzz rotten city   
   >> >and getting worse.   
   >>   
   >> I noticed how you glibbly ignored the immensely terrific things   
   >> going on here that I posted about earlier. That was just a sample.   
   >>   
   >> Look, if you really want to understand mayhem go to just about anywhere   
   >> in sub-Saharan Africa! I'll take being in Philadelphia any day of the   
   >> week!   
   >>   
   >> KByrd   
   >>   
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