"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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In article , 127.0.0.1 wrote:
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:40:24 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:


Much of the world's population manages to survive without them.

[electricity and indoor plumbing]

do you? would you? I don't think you would


No, and I do not want to. But the point is that many people can and do
survive
without them. They are *not* necessities.

So tell that to a citizen of Afghanistan or Angola, where the life
expectancy at birth is 35.5 and 33.4 years respectively, compared to places
like Australia, where it's 72.6 years, or San Marino at 73.4 years.