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Originally posted by MagiK:
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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Speaking of double standards...I have always wonder why liberals are always being degraded for being "bleeding hearts" by conservatives, but it is ok to be a "compassionate conservative".
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It's a matter of degree Chewie.
As an Example: One man happens upon a begger sitting in the snow freezing, so he builds the man a fire. Another man happens accross another man sitting in the snow and so sets him on fire. The first being a compassionate conservative the second being a radical leftist liberal. [img]smile.gif[/img]
I know most people won't see any humor there...but it was a joke. [/QUOTE]I think it is the difference between talking the talk and walking the walk. Being compassionate when it is convient (election time, during a push for war) isn't real compassion at all. I would teach the guy to how make to make a fire if he were able and buy him a hotel room if he were unable but I was.
Totally off-topic:
Reminds me of a scene I witnessed in the finacial district in Boston. There is a crippled alcoholic, he has a bum leg, who always sits on this one corner panhandling. I saw a man in a business suit sporting a rolex walk up to him and ask him "Would you like a hot meal, a shower, and a bed to sleep in tonight?"
As the guy walked away with the "bum", I asked him what his motive was. I was doing some "social work" at the time, finding out the history of the homeless who squatted on the area, and I was concerned that this maybe an attempt to exploit the guy.
The business man replied he has seen this guy, like I had, on this corner for weeks, wallowing away on booze and barely able to walk on his second hand, broken crutch. He said that since he had the means, he was going to give the guy a room for the night and pay for a medical check up.
The next day the bum was back on the corner, showered, shaved, in new cloths and with a new crutch. That's true compassion in my opinion, It has nothing to do with politics, but exercising what is best about the human spirit.