Thread: From the "We were just trying to learn stuff" department
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Old 10-08-2012, 08:35 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by derangedhermit View Post
Been to Nigeria? Most people are very poor. Infant death is 1 in 10, in bad years. Half the population doesn't make $1000 a year. A person born there today, 2012, can expect to die at age 50. Statistics cannot convey life there to someone who has no acquaintance with such things.

Textbooks? The only thing that would lift most of the children out of a short, squalid life is a one-way ticket to somewhere else.

To use illegal textbooks in Nigeria to incite yet another Internet "discussion" on copyright is in questionable taste, IMHO; "callous" comes to mind. Nothing new for Nigerians; people have been ignoring or taking advantage of them for a long time.

Please pick some other headline to push your agenda.
And if those textbooks were detailing how to grow food in Nigeria more efficiently? Or detailing low cost/high quality construction methods?

The world is just one big slippery slope.
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