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Posted by Warm Worm on November 12, 2007, 8:04 pm
Don wrote:
>> Don wrote:
>>>> Don wrote:
>>>>>>> George Conklin wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> And she's not alone...
>>>>>>>> People with limited incomes do have to make choices. They may
>>>>>>>> not be
>>>>>>>> yours. Some are bad. Drugs are bad too, but government is doing
>>>>>>>> its best
>>>>>>>> to stamp out drugs and to provide things like food stamps for very
>>>>>>>> low
>>>>>>>> income people, many of whom, by the way, refuse the service.
>>>>>>> Clearly, you've been impressed by the "war on drugs" and it's many
>>>>>>> successes...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ...and food stamps... what a joke of a program. Those who need them
>>>>>>> the most have the most difficulty with them (again, I speak from
>>>>>>> experience working with people).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This woman's choices aren't based on her limited income. She's
>>>>>>> fathered 4 children with 3 fathers--knowing the fathers are nowhere
>>>>>>> around (and she's not very attractive at all). Her choices were
>>>>>>> based on her ability to INCREASE her income with more children. But
>>>>>>> if she's going to make poor choices, then I have no obligation to
>>>>>>> support her in her poor choices. I'll help her as she makes good
>>>>>>> choices, but so far, the pattern has been to make choices that
>>>>>>> minimize her effort and maximize her income, which is not earned.
>>>>>> And what about her children? Have they been put in that situation
>>>>>> because of THEIR choices?
>>>>> Other people's children are none of your business.
>>>> Other people's children sure are, Don,
>>> No they're not.
>>> If she wants to mind some childrens business then she needs to go get her
>>> own.
>> Cripes.
>>
>>> especially when they begin to
>>>> torture and rape.
>>>>
>>>> If recalled, you just moved from a place that had an apparent murder
>>>> nearby, or at least dubious activity that you seemed 'curious' about.
>>> I was curious about the spotlights and 30 police cars running up and down
>>> the street.
>>> I didn't find out about the murder until the next day on the toob.
>> It could have been about you, about your murder. Then whose business is
>> it? Certainly not yours, since, if you were dead, your business would be
>> to lie very still.
>> In another context, if I truly was a worm, it would then be my business to
>> slide right on in and help decompose you.
>>
>>>> 'None of you business' also comes in shades of gray.
>>> Nope, there's a definite line in the sand.
>> A line drawn in the sand is composed of a billion grains.
>>
>>> Nosey, bored people claim to see shades of gray where this is concerned.
>>> Do you like people nosing around in your business?
>>> Treat people like you like to be treated.........
>> ...Like how little Johnny next door **
>
> No, like YOU like to be treated.
> I sincerly hope you're not the nosey so and so you're promoting here.
> If so, move on down here to the states where it seems like just about
> everybody lives to stick their long pointy nose in everybody elses business
> while neglecting their own.
> You'll be in proper company.
>
> **I wonder why some people find it necessary to make stuff up in an attempt
> to justify a position they know is wrong?
Then I suppose we need to _qualify_ what we mean by minding one's own
business.
Here's mine:
If I catch someone bopping their kids *while minding my own business*,
then I'll step in.
I call that minding my own business in the protection of others.
Rest assured that, at the same time, I'm also against people sticking
their shnozes in others' businesses where I feel they shouldn't, but
various abuses, when "accidentally discovered", are exceptions.
Another exception would be turning a blind eye and/or failing to act on
somethings like the above, such as in the name of 'minding one's own
business', or of 'just following orders':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Defense
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