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DeSwiss

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17. Even before we understand what the words of instructions mean.

Reply to raging moderate (Reply #2)

Sat Apr 4, 2015, 01:18 AM

Apr 2015

And I agree completely about the need for ethical standards being required in the control and use of technology. But that has never been the ''American-Way'', has it? That's how we found ourselves today, awash in plastic and plastic goo. We have so dramatically chemically altered our immediate environment(s), that illness is not only expected in one's life, but is almost considered the norm.

- In all the politicking for healthcare programs, it never seems to occur to anyone that maybe we're the ones making ourselves sick......

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