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Re: Question for the Conservatives out there
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:37:01 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Don Heyse wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur wrote:
> > > What would *you* assert the foundation of our society is?
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> > A mixture of greed and fear.
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> I hope you don't truly believe that,
I was being cynical. I see too many parents working very long hours (to the
detriment of their health, marriage & family) so that they may buy items they
don’t need as they fear not conforming. Twenty years ago a “family day out”
would be a walk in the countryside, now we go shopping and engage in debt fed
“conspicuous consumption”.
We work harder, longer and take less holidays... this is not progress!
> because it's just plain wrong.
> Society is based on extending the relationships learned early on in
> the family environment (whatever that may be) to encompass people in
> the neighborhood, and then beyond that into society as a whole.
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> Have you ever lived through a really bad storm that tears up an entire
> neighborhood?
No. I would not live in such a place. Anyhow, I thought you lived on a farm?
Scott A
> I've seen streets destroyed by tornados, and whole
> neighborhoods ripped up by hurricanes. After the weather clears,
> everyone inevitably gathers around the worst damaged places and helps
> out with the repairs. People who may have never spoken to each
> other before end up working side by side to help out those in need.
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> That's what our society is based upon. You have to look really hard
> to imagine greed and fear is the foundation. In fact, I suspect
> you're looking in the wrong place. Don't make the mistake of
> examining your own heart and then imagining everyone is just like you.
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> Don
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| (...) Oh, silly me. Perhaps you could adopt one of these emoticons for when you're in cynical mode. >:-> Cynical; Devil-like; Really devilish remark; Has a crew cut; Leering >;-> Cynical wink; Irony; Winky and devil combined (a very lewd remark was (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I hope you don't truly believe that, because it's just plain wrong. Society is based on extending the relationships learned early on in the family environment (whatever that may be) to encompass people in the neighborhood, and then beyond that (...) (20 years ago, 10-Jun-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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