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[Glen Turner]

Karl Auer wrote:

> IMHO, when it comes to natural disasters, all you can do for people is
> make sure you've done your best to educate them about how to make
> themselves as safe as possible; then let Darwin sort them out.

If you regard those small towns on the edge of Melbourne as the
dormitory suburbs of the poor, then there's a fair bit of social
darwinism in that remark.  "Education" is rich people saying
for "we'll tell you what to do, but you're on your own".  It's
not a solution in and of itself unless the expected action is
of low cost (as with AIDS and condoms).

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  Glen Turner. My remarks, not those of my employer.