Re: Distribution & Redistribution

From: Ron Allen (rallen2_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 12/18/04 

Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:10:34 -0500

jmhall@apex.home.net wrote:
> So tell me how we got to where were are from the
> cave man? If the world is truely as pathetic and
> fucked up as you claim I just don't see how we,
> as a species, have manage to reach the stage we
> have. Everything you tell me suggest we should
> have undermined that effort and destoried
> ourselves.

Robert J. Kolker wrote:
> Clever apes that we are, we learned to may
> better tools and construct better technical
> methods. Unfortunately our moral advancement is
> piddling compared to our technological
> accomplishments. Man learned how to fly and also
> drop terrible bombs on women and children. Some
> progress that is.

Ron Allen answers:
If you believe that the desire to improve human
beings is pissing up a rope, then you will only
bitch about human evil, you will shirk your own
responsibility for and to others, you will ignore
every opportunity, and you will abandon all hope.

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"Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen,
and at the top divine. But the climate of this
world is such that few ripen at the top."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

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