Midnight Oil

[Powderworks] Golf?

Bawolski@aol.com Bawolski@aol.com
Thu, 21 Mar 2002 00:50:34 EST


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In a message dated 3/20/2002 9:04:00 AM Pacific Standard Time, kate@dnki.net 
writes:


> I'm a little disillusioned from the human rights standpoint as well as the 
> environmental damage angle.  In developing nations, small farmers are 
> forcibly run off their lands with little or no compensation to build golf 
> courses that feed no one.  Then their daughters are essentially 
> economically enslaved as "caddies", who not only cart the bags, but are 
> obliged to end each round with a hole in one, as it were.
> 

I'll preface this by saying that I'm not a golfer, I've played a few times 
(never had
a caddy though), but I don't understand your logic here.  What you describe 
is a
terrible thing, obviously.  But does that make golf evil?  Is the game of 
golf the 
oppressor of these people?  What if they were taking these farmers land and 
building rock and roll concert halls.  Would I be participating in something 
evil
by going to see the Oils tomorrow night?

Mike



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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I'm a little disillusioned from the human rights standpoint as well as the <BR>
environmental damage angle.&nbsp; In developing nations, small farmers are <BR>
forcibly run off their lands with little or no compensation to build golf <BR>
courses that feed no one.&nbsp; Then their daughters are essentially <BR>
economically enslaved as "caddies", who not only cart the bags, but are <BR>
obliged to end each round with a hole in one, as it were.<BR>
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I'll preface this by saying that I'm not a golfer, I've played a few times (never had<BR>
a caddy though), but I don't understand your logic here.&nbsp; What you describe is a<BR>
terrible thing, obviously.&nbsp; But does that make golf evil?&nbsp; Is the game of golf the <BR>
oppressor of these people?&nbsp; What if they were taking these farmers land and <BR>
building rock and roll concert halls.&nbsp; Would I be participating in something evil<BR>
by going to see the Oils tomorrow night?<BR>
<BR>
Mike<BR>
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