Re: Licence of ts-comint

[John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>]

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On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:54 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
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> On 08/22/2017 10:33 AM, John Yates wrote:
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>> Reminds me of the importance a population
>> experiencing widespread famine
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attaches
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to
>> freedom of the press.
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> a free press and other democratic institutions help combat the threat of
famine. For more, please see Amartya Sen's writings on the topic.
 Sen was inspired by the Bengal famine of 1943, which killed three million
people
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I am well aware that a free press is one means of buttressing good
governance.  I am unfamiliar with Amartya Sen's writing nor the history of
the Indian famine of 1943.

I note that you wrote "help combat the threat of" not "solve" famine.​
I would
​have been
 surprised if you
​attempted to argue
 that parents
​ desperately​
trying to
​provide​
 for starving children demonstrate much awareness or interest in the
presence or lack of a free press.
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Perhaps I should have invoked Maslov's hierarchy of needs.
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