Re: A new hijacking

From: Notan (notan_at_ddress.com)
Date: 09/22/05 

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:31:13 -0600

Howard Brazee wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:02:56 -0400, "kurttrail"
> <dontemailme@anywhereintheknowuniverse.org> wrote:
>
> >> Who are you helping? (Only people on this forum are reading your
> >> posts).
> >
> >If I get one person to reconsider to continue to enable fat lazy fools,
> >then I feel I have helped.
>
> Life's all about helping others. Even if they are fools. Is the
> world better off when fools suffer than when fools don't suffer?
>
> >And these aren't forums, but newsgroups.
>
> Newsgroups aren't types of forums?
>
> >> How are you helping them? (By persuading us that software shouldn't
> >> be safer - because the victims deserve what they get?)
> >
> >Where did I say anything about software shouldn't be safer? Quote me.
>
> If people deserve to be punished for being foolish, then the
> implication is that we shouldn't work to prevent them from their just
> consequences.
>
> You can't make people smarter, all you can do is mitigate the
> consequences of their foolishness.

Again, I'd imagine that there's no reasoning with little Kurt.

Apparently, he's the the type of person that thinks calling a
fat person "fat" is a good motivator for weight loss.

Anything else would be coddling.

Take care!

Notan

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