"Keenan Wellar" ) writes:
"Tinkerntom" wrote in message

Constitution is talking about. The Constitution says that we are all
born equal

Then the Constitution is wrong. You might want to fix it. I think you fixed
up some other parts that were wrong. Like the value of a black person? That
sort of thing.

I'd like to jump in here to address a popular misonception. The Bible says
"all men are created equal in the eyes of God". It just means that every
person is born with what some religuous beliefs call a soul and can get
into Heaven. It has nothing to do with genetics, social status, or
government legislation and enforcement. It's like another Amercian myth
that any boy can grow up to be President. I had the advantage of living in
the USA for a few years, graduating from an Amercian high scool. There is
quite a difference in what people are taught in Canadian and American
schools and in their outlook and opinions as adults. The attitude of
superiority taught in Amercian schools is much more like what is taught in
England than what is taught in Canada. It's not unexpected as anyone who
lucks into power and weath usually comes to think they are smarter or
better educated or something, supported by compliments by others. Because
we have so many abundant natural resources in Canada we live well in spite
of the enourmous mistakes made by business and government, not because of
their wisdom and ability which si no better than elsewhere, and because of
the abundance of resources, tends to be more wasteful than elsewhere.

On the subject of preserving wilderness, in Canada we have more of it but
we are not doing any better than the Amercians in protecting or restoring
it, especially waterways in and around settled areas. We only get
interested in it when we think it will attract American tourist dollars to
areas of low employment. That happens after the mine has closed or the
profitable trees have been cut. It's a kind of natural progression, like
moving west.

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