victimless activities

[Bruce Altschuler]

This discussion is getting a bit silly. Even if Rick is right, we would
have to add the people created by making love. Thus, if we stopped making
war, there would be more people in the world. If we stopped making love,
there would be no people in the world. He might just as well say that
breathing causes more deaths than war.
Bruce Altschuler

On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Richards, Edward P. wrote:

> > Rick, you cannot be serious.  "Make war" is less deadly than "make
> > love"???
>
> If you figure that in the global scheme of things, wars have not killed even a
> small percentage of the people that communicable diseases kill, and that almost
> any communicable disease can be transmitted sexually, then Rick is probably
> right!
>
> Ed:-)
>