I am amazed at how stupid this world is becoming.

Take, for example, the letter received from Aref Al Farra on Thursday.

In it he stated his shock at Elton Wong’s column of the day before.

He took several quotes from this column and stated that Mr. Wong was basically heartless because he thought that Congress should start “calculating how much money each life, American and non-American, is worth.”

It seems rather obvious to me that statements like this — and the whole column in general —was satirical.

That means, for people who are obviously not versed in this form of writing (like Mr. Al Farra), that what he wrote isn’t really what he believes. If it was, I doubt that the Daily would want its name attached to the piece.

Of course, there is no price on a human life; that was Mr. Wong’s point.

He was showing, through satire, that there is value in every life, and that saving 100 lives with one is usually worth it.

What really amazed me is how something so simple could slip through the grasp of a graduate student — someone who is supposed to have a brain.

Michael Mischnick

Senior

Chemical engineering