10 January 2000
Paul Kotheimer

SEVEN PRECEPTS FOR A BETTER MILLENIUM

Part 4

GUARANTEED SUBSISTENCE - In our view, any system of ideas which claims that certain children deserve to starve is not moral and not sane. Allowing this, it follows that the violence necessary to maintain economic inequality becomes most evident wherever infants starve. A community which prioritized guaranteed sustenance, for children first and foremost, would require less and less coercion, fear, abuse, and hardship, not to mention family strife and mental anguish.

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