[Z-man]

Originally Posted by snowman

eico Insurance, so easy a Caveman...


Sorry Geico, and sorry to cavemen of all nationalities. But its true, Cavemen exist and they exist NOW. WHY ???? Just plain WHY????

Ok, snow - since you misread my first post, I'll try to answer your question -

First off, my definition of cavemen is simply: people who have very little material possessions and who have very little of the modern luxuries that all of us who are online here have.

So why are there cavemen?

1. Some folks are part of a nomadic culture, and they choose to make a life out of living in tents and tending to their herds. It is their choice to not live lavish lives - but to adhere to simpler ways.

2. Some folks do not have the means to live in anything more than a simple mud house or cave. They are below the poverty line, and that's it. I won't go into who is to blame here - but that is the fact - they are too poor to afford anything else.

3. There are some remote areas in the world that are unaffected by the modern progress. Take, for example the countries of Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea. The rough terrain and extreme remote areas of those countries prohibit much of the modern world from penetrating into areas where pockets of people live.

4. Not all people have the same opportunities to modernize their lives. I mentioned this in my earlier post - the man in Kenya who would have to use his whole lifetime earnings to move his family to the US (or some other 'modern' country) simply cannot do that -- it is beyond his means to move out of his cave.

Snowman
I just asked the question, WHY? Your comments are truly offensive, you implied racism, I only asked WHY Why is approx 25% of the world living like cavemen? Your reasons do not make sense. You assume a lot, present useless information on why you think we are somehow responsible for their condition. We are not.

1. How did my comments imply racism? I do not understand how you come to that conclusion.
2. Please explain how my reasons do not make sense. If someone is so poor that they cannot afford anything but to live in a mud hut, how does that sound illogical?
3. I never implied that we are responsible for their condition. All I implied was that we (those from the USA) may need to go out of our environment in order to see the big picture. And we do have the ability to help others who are less fortunate than we are.

SnowmanWe are very efficient, clean people. The carbon footprint is bogus, a red herring. Even 2000 years ago the Romans lived, on an evolutionary scale 30,000 years, better than much of the rest of the world and those same people today. Their per person impact on the environment was much greater than anyone today.

Can you supply a link to a source that would prove this notion? I find it hard to believe that the Romans caused more pollution than we do...

snowmanFinally...What is narrow minded about asking a question about a simple fact? I made no attempt to state any reason as to why those people live the way they do, but I did ask the question WHY do they even exist in todays world?

Sorry snowman -- but your quote below shows that you are being judgemental and narrow minded:

snowmanThen why are they still living in mud huts? Political oppression has been significant in every country in the world, yet these people are still cavemen! Why isn't the rest of the world in the same sorry condition?

-Z-man.