>Because you expect other people to implement your suggestion while you do nothing.< Some people get my point, and others don't. I don't expect anything. Let me try another analogy, since my first one was lousy;
Say I'm visiting my uncle in Lynchburg, Tenn. We go to the mall to buy a shirt. The mall is this beautiful 2-story complex with indoor fountains and trees, and very nice shops etc. However, the only way in and out was a rope ladder to narrow passage. We arrive at 10am when they open. There is a crowd of people milling around. They can't find the entrance. Many of them have flown all the way from Redmond, WA to see this wonderful mall. A few have discovered the passage and are climbing in, but most are just in the crowd in the parking lot. They don't know where they're supposed to go and they're getting hot, sweaty, and thirsty. Most end up getting disgusted, and get back in their cars and drive away. After getting home, I can't understand what they were thinking when they built the mall. So I send in a little editorial note to the local newspaper suggesting that they make the entrances bigger and easier to spot, since it would server everybody's interests. It doesn't make much difference to me whether they actually fix the entrances, since I'm leaving the morning to go back home. I just thought it would be a good suggestion for the customers, the shopkeepers, and the mall management. However, at 3am, the local police bash down my uncle's door, and drag me out of bed. They charge me with violating a local ordinance. I have made a suggestion to widen the mall entrance without showing up with a wheelbarrow and jackhammer to do it myself! They strap me to a post in the center of the town, and now nobody cares about the mall anymore since they have something better to do. Each resident is allowed to whip me thirty lashes, although nobody cares if you go over, as long it doesn't cut into anyone else's whipping time. After I die from bleeding, they put my corpse on a big wooden frame and mount it on the side of the mall with the caption: "Dumb, Lazy, Selfish Bastard!" -Kevin Stokes >I don't know your parents well enough to comment on the bastard part, but if you want to take without giving, that pretty much is the textbook definition of selfish.<