>Sam,
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>>Millions of people donated time and money towards the tsunami relief.
>>Should we declare war on mother nature?
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>>Metin, you can't always trust photos yousee on the internet. They can be fake. Why would a tourist want to be next to a dead corps on the beach?
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>You would not believe the amount of tourism just after the tsunamies. A lot of western people did celebrate their holiday just after the tsunami, even if disaster struck only a few miles away.
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>Walter,
Hey what can I say. Us Westerners got to have our booz and women. :)
Really, I don't know what to think about it. Perhaps morally it was wrong. But what ya gonna do?
It sounds like they (the tourist businesses) needed the tourist's money and there were few who couldn't resist the bargin. But I don't know about the dead decomposing bodies on the beach... I doubt it....
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
– Mark Twain (1866)