[x5452]

People somewhere are starving so funds can go toward decoding the dna of an extinct elephant.

[Kirkwood]

"People somewhere are starving so funds can go toward decoding the dna of an extinct elephant."

Same could be said on the dinner you had tonight. Why didn't you give the money you spent on your dinner to starving kids in Africa?

[Dark Knight]

People somewhere are starving so funds can go toward decoding the dna of an extinct elephant.
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People are starving because their governments steal from them. If they had economic freedom, low taxes and strong private rights they would not starve.


Your argument is a white elephant.

DK

[patton]

Now that is a silly assertion. People are starving, because they do not have the needed skills to survive in their environment. It has nothing to do with what we spend our time studying here, or anywhere else.

Or do you propose that we should all work as slaves on farms to feed the poor?

[Maynerd]

People somewhere are starving so funds can go toward decoding the dna of an extinct elephant.

Wonderful. A scientific scrooge. The only people in this country that go hungry are too strung out on drugs or alcohol to stagger to the local soup kitchen.

[Hank Rearden]

People somewhere are starving so funds can go toward decoding the dna of an extinct elephant.

We have more people. Lots of them. Even useless people, like democRats and Moslems.

We don't have any mammoths. Yet.

[Paul C. Jesup]

People somewhere are starving so funds can go toward decoding the dna of an extinct elephant.

Yes, people are starving in foreign nations, where the tyrants there pocket the foreign aid money meant for the starving people and destroy any non-state-run farms.

Unless you want to have the military invade those nations, which I am not completely against, there is nothing we can do for them with our money. So let's instead use our money to advance science and improve the quality of life for us.

[absolootezer0]

but imagine how many of them we could feed with a mammoth?