Re: Distribution & Redistribution
From: Ron Allen (rallen2_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 12/26/04
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Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:46:59 -0500
jmhall@apex.home.net wrote:
> I'm not sure if I believe your last claim. I
> think you're actually saying that you won't
> sacrifice you and yours for me and mine --
> especially since you couldn't possibly know who
> me and mine are. Or are you really saying that
> you feel absolutely nothing for the plight of
> others when hearing all these bad stories in the
> papers about things that are happening to them?
Robert J. Kolker writes:
> What difference does it make how I feel? My
> feelings and three dollars will get me a ride on
> the Green Line from Park Street in Boston out to
> Riverside station in Newton.
jmhall@apex.home.net wrote:
> Ideas are what change the world and if you're
> teaching your children that they should not give
> a damn about other humans in general then you're
> helping to create and perpetuate the world you
> describe. On the other hand, if you teach your
> children -- and this actually requires doing and
> not merely saying -- to have some respect and
> empathy for another human as a human you help to
> build a better world. I'm not suggesting that
> you tell them or try to act by living only to
> serve others -- I don't think that is natural,
> neceesary, or even advantagous for all of us to
> attempt to live entirely for other's benefit.
> I agree with the premiss that none of us will
> change the world that exists. We can help to
> shape the world that will exist tomorrow, and we
> do that through what we pass on to our children.
> If we teach them that others are nothing and
> only their interests matter then the hope that
> man will ever live in a world where rights and
> people are respected can never be realized.
Ron Allen answers:
What is the difference between changing the
existing world of the present, and shaping the
eventual world of the future?
If rights and liberties are ever going to be
realized, and if the dignity and individuality of
people are ever going to be respected, then that
will surely be a different world from the existing
world of today, which was created and constituted
for us by our precursors.
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"If you want to make enemies, try to change
something."
-- Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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