OK Joe, here we go.
"I asume you are writing from your laptop enroute to the damage zone to 'walk the walk' and not just talk the talk."
You've given me an exellent example to prove my point.
This reaction from you implies that either:
a.) I falsely stated that I'm involved in the rescue effort
b.) I "judged" you for not being involved enough
...niether of which has happened.
Yet without anything to support it, you passed judgement on me.
What makes this statement even more rediculous is that the issue of passing judgement and holding people "accountable" is independent of where and when it might be happening.
Mike
Joe Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It's the same world you live in Mike but some people just have the blinders off;
Ok in a disaster of that scale how high on a list of needs is a TV set? What would YOU call the person walking out a storefront with one? There is a difference between compassion and blindness. If you had a long term friend whom you discovered was a closet serial killer would it change the friendship? Is your compassion completely unconditional? Is it not our capacity to discriminate that empowers us to choose who our friends are from the myriad strangers out there? Would you choose a friend from a crowd of people walking out of a wrecked store with merchandise while you were blindfolded? Suppose your partner was equally indiscriminate? Would you still feel honoured by her love? (please excuse my arbitrary assumption on the gender) Are you going to burden yourself with the stupidity of those who will not learn or think for themselves after they have been warned time and again? Even a parent would not do this time and time again with their own child, well not if they are good parents anyways. Often people have to experience some pain in order to learn but some just never do. They should be pitied but at some point you do have to shrug them off your shoulder or else there will end up being so many of them on there they will bury you alive! Sad but true nontheless. Easy to live in this world? Just because you at some point shrug and walk on does not mean you like to do it, or don't still wish the world was an ideal place with ideal people who think ahead and have a sense of accountability and stewardship for themselves their loved ones and their circumstances. Too bad this is the real world. Too bad we are all not the saints that you are with unlimited unconditional compassion for those who would smile at our outstretched hands and then shoot us in the back the first time they perceived us as an obstacle to getting what they want. Might want to consider that along the way as I asume you are writing from your laptop enroute to the damage zone to 'walk the walk' and not just talk the talk.
Joe
Michael Redler wrote:
OK, when you're done celebrating, you still have to figure out who "they" are. So far, you've done the equivalent of pointing at a crowd of people and calling "them" thieves because you spotted one walking out of a store with a TV.Oh how easy it must be to live in your world!Mike
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