Absurdities
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In 1765, the agnostic French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire wrote: “Those who can make you believe
absurdities
, can make you commit atrocities.”
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We know how to solve diarrhea and sanitation, but if you look at the budgets of countries, developing and developed, you'll think there's something wrong with the math, because you'll expect
absurdities
like Pakistan spending 47 times more on its military than it does on water and sanitation, even though 150,000 children die of diarrhea in Pakistan every year.
And as a kid, when I would try to explain this, this disconnect between their roles and my values, they often laughed in the way that adults do at the
absurdities
of children.
Only a very small child could overlook the
absurdities
in this bomb; the first difficulty faced by the submarine "Seaview" is what appear to be chunks of--rock?
In fairness, when they could escape the preposterous plot and the consequent
absurdities
there are some genuinely powerful moments- the depiction of people slowly starving to death is convincingly done and moving, but these only show up the rest of it even more.
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