Mexico has, nonetheless, seen a hair-raising increase in population size. At any given time during the last 40 years, more than half the population has been under sixteen years old. The cause sure as hell has not been any kind if irresponsibility. On the contrary: the growth has come from the most responsible of actions.
I keep mentioning that in the community I started studying in 1958, there are good records showing that prior to 1954 approximately half the children born alive failed to survive past the age of five. That rate of infant mortality was typical of rural areas all over the country -- and most of Mexico was decidedly rural in those days. Infants and young children died of perinatal infections; they died of parasites ingested with impure water; they died of malaria or measles or typhoid or cholera or polio; they died of malnutrition; they died of neglect.
mike salovesh at Anthro-L{concise cogent reasoned rebuttal to the 'them Mexicans don't do it right' racist bullshit arguments over immigration. but. it has the ring of truth and the welcome freshness of clarity, but only because the real argument is so buried to begin with. where does it say that this constant attack on what is after all a balancing and helpful part of life, individual death, is a good thing? I'm sure there's a logical fallacy that covers this. arguing the general from the specific. it's been my main rap for a month now. you take the position of gods, with the power and the omniscient vision, and you bring to that position the petulance and immaturity of over-indulged ten year olds. when you take God-like power you take God-like responsibility, or you become demons.
you have no problem saving lives and feel justifiably proud and we all agree it's unthinkable to stand and watch someone die when you have the medicine that will save them in your hand. but. subverting what were after all natural processes that worked, that gave the grace and beauty of the real to every creature that has it now, the wolf the hummingbird the butterfly the elk the lion the antelope the shark the finest most beautiful human you've ever seen. all that is the result of the waves of birth and death. now you want to stop that. but you have nothing to put in its place.
how sick to stop evolution here.
we're not done, anyone can see that. how cowardly to want to stop it now.}
