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Originally Posted by shovel
The people who came before us had literally all the time in the world to make paradise and where is it? We're still terrorized by disease, we still fight with our neighbors in real wars with real body counts, we still have resource shortages. Sorry, everything we've done so far is a failure.
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I beg to differ. Ever know anyone with smallpox, or polio? This is what life was like in the old, old, days:
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Upon a general calculation, threescore persons in every hundred have the small-pox. Of these threescore, twenty die of it in the most favourable season of life, and as many more wear the disagreeable remains of it in their faces so long as they live. Thus, a fifth part of mankind either die or are disfigured by this distemper. But it does not prove fatal to so much as one among those who are inoculated in Turkey or in England, unless the patient be infirm, or would have died had not the experiment been made upon him.
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Voltaire, "Letters on the English".