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Re: The Limits To Growth
In article <329EF79C.5C6@ix.netcom.com>, mfriesel@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>charliew wrote:
>.....
>>
>> Fahrakkan is out for Fahrakkan - plain and simple.
>
>I reply:
>
>Then no more need be said on the issue.
>.......
>
>
>Later charliew says:
>
>>
>> For once we agree on something. I'm glad. Incidentally, I am now
raising
>> two small children. I often have to deliberately suppress compassion in
>> order to provide justice when my children don't follow the rules.
Justice
>> is not always pleasant, and it doesn't always involve spanking, but it
sure
>> is something that I would rather avoid. However, (and this is the most
>> important point of this discussion) my children decide if justice is
>> appropriate - I do not. Their actions alone either merit praise or
>> punishment.
>
>I note:
>
>For the last decade or so (when I had more money than I needed) I made a
>point of occasionally offering people $5 - $20 no strings attached. I
>probably did this about 200 times. One girl working at a hotel check-in
>counter took $5, she refused it the first time and said hers was the
>only one in the hotel which could not take tips, so I told her it wasn't
>a tip. A divorced Mormon woman living at her mother's with her teen-age
>son at work took $20, and asked me four or five times if I was sure I
>wanted to give that much money away. I'm starting to think that only a
>fraction of the people whom we label criminals are really criminals as
>we like to think of them - most may be very ethical people in their own
>way.
>
Sadly, it's not most people you have to worry about. The 1-2% of the true
social deviants are responsible for way more than their "share" of crime.
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