Edith wrote: >The thing that strikes me most about this whole 'letter' is the old, old trick politicians have of dehumanising people who oppose them. It's far easier to belittle, mistreat, ignore, torture and kill someone who I believe is a lesser being than me. If we believe that all people are equal (without any necessity of mentioning any special groups or categories), it becomes impossible to do the appalling things that happen all over the world. You may think I'm dreaming of the impossible. Try starting to live this way where you are now, amongst those people you have contact with.
Having just spent 3 days at work doing what we call "stock maintenance", which consists of looking through all the itmes that were returned by people or found in the library and have somehthing wrong with them, I am inclined to say : If we all started by repecting other people's property, instead of cutting out recipes instead of photocopying them, writing phone numbers on pages just because they happen to be handy at the time, or rude messages because it's funny, or we don't agree with the writer on a point, extinguishing our cigarettes or spilling our drink on the library book; reaping off pages because they have pretty pictures, or the teacher wants us to illustrate an assignment,or we need a piece of paper to write something down; scratching CDs and DVDs and pulling videos out of the machine before they stop; trhrosing library books in the b(dirty) boot of the car and leaving them to soak in grease and water for a few days, and then sneaking them through the night chute so that no-one can reproach us verbally, masturbating in the library and hiding the result inside the pages of a new book (yes! it's happened here!! imagine how we felt when we found it!!!) When we all stop doing those things, then we might be ready to look at more important things, like getting on with other human beings.... Yours, sad and furious after throwing away many nearly new books, videos, CDs, magazines and DVDs, Helwne, the froggy from Melbourne Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
