>At 4:47 PM +1000 10/8/01, Spectro wrote: >>When *there* is 'freedom, safety, peace, and prosperity for all', the world's >>dwindling wealth will be far more equitably distributed. That means all us >>Westerners will need to come down quite a few notches. Otherwise, forget it. >>This, as I tried vainly to explain in earlier related posts, is the root of >>the whole problem. > >What a stubbornly negative view. Why does anyone have to "come >down"? Would it not be better to hope those who want to could come >up? Flagellate yourself all you want but don't expect me to join >you. Call it what you like, in the end it is a matter of relativity... If you have wealthy people, you will, by necessity, have impoverished people and those who 'come up' do so at the expense of others. Look around you...
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Re: [L-OT] OT^2 - Thanks
2001-10-08 by Spectro
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