--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This captures the OPPOSITE, (or oppotips), of what I > perceive the TIPS program to be about. A > Neighborhood Watch is looking outward to protect > citizens from more danger where the "danger" signs > are more tangible: prowlers, unfamiliar cars > cruising slowly by an empty house and things like > that. >
I've been following this thread with great interest. (Loved "oppotips" and wish I had said that). Everytime someone makes a point - any point - I think, yeah, that makes sense - even when the person is disagreeing with someone else with whom I kind of agreed just before that. Which only goes to show you the many sides of any argument and how there can be both good and bad in such a plan (IMO mostly bad and ill-advised and thought up by knee-jerk reactionaries who haven't given it a great deal of thought - oh yeah, politicians, that's what I mean.) The whole problem is, nothing is simple when it comes to human beings. The best-laid plans of mice and men and so on. Theoretically we should all be looking out for one another. If we were all doing that, then we probably wouldn't need to be suspicious of one another. Or theoretically, if we were all suspicious of one another, we'd all be on our best behaviour in order to avoid being nailed for something we may (or may not) have done. Theoretically, capitalism is good, because if we all work hard, we'll all make lots of money, and no one will go to bed hungry at night, and we'll all have satellite dishes and big cars or whatever we see as signs of success. Theoretically communism is also good because we'd all work hard and we'd share everything with those who weren't able to work hard because they were old or infirm (or lazy? Nah, there is no such thing as lazy to the true communist, I imagine - laziness may be a form of undetected disability, or an undiagnosed depression, or what-have you, so not the person's fault, OK?) and no one would go to bed hungry and so on. Factor into the equation - PEOPLE! Basically, people suck. If they all thought the right way (that is, my way), then we'd all be happy. It's that simple. Or, as Charlie Brown (or maybe it was Snoopy) once said: "I love mankind. It's people I can't stand." ______________________________________________________________________ Post your ad for free now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
