Comments on: Each Week, A Person is Murdered Over Land, Forests, and Natural Resources http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/25/each-week-a-person-is-murdered-over-land-forests-and-natural-resources/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Julia http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/25/each-week-a-person-is-murdered-over-land-forests-and-natural-resources/#comment-33409 Julia Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:05:53 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=37934#comment-33409 Interesting. I wonder what it is about a place or people that makes it ok to kill someone over land. I am inclined to say that sort of thing would not happen in the U.S., but in other countries like the ones mentioned, but I don't know that that is true. Is is a lack of fear of legal repercussions? Does it have to do with social class? Are morals so different in some countries? Also, why is it that I disapprove of murdering someone over natural resources, but I'm still going to buy coffee and products made from soybeans? Interesting. I wonder what it is about a place or people that makes it ok to kill someone over land. I am inclined to say that sort of thing would not happen in the U.S., but in other countries like the ones mentioned, but I don’t know that that is true. Is is a lack of fear of legal repercussions? Does it have to do with social class? Are morals so different in some countries? Also, why is it that I disapprove of murdering someone over natural resources, but I’m still going to buy coffee and products made from soybeans?

]]> By: JMW http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/06/25/each-week-a-person-is-murdered-over-land-forests-and-natural-resources/#comment-33408 JMW Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:04:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=37934#comment-33408 Not to be flippant about a serious problem, but I reading this I can hear Gene Hackman in Superman: Son, stocks may rise and fall; utilities and transportation systems may collapse; people are no damn good. But they will always need land, and they will pay through the nose to get it. Remember, my father said, <i>land</i>. Not to be flippant about a serious problem, but I reading this I can hear Gene Hackman in Superman:

Son, stocks may rise and fall; utilities and transportation systems may collapse; people are no damn good. But they will always need land, and they will pay through the nose to get it. Remember, my father said, land.

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