Aid Money - to get things into perspective

[Fljotsdale]

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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:



It is neither accurate or descriptive, but it is rude.

Your point is to only see the down side, the bad, the lack of complying to whatever level you personally set. A miser wouldn't spend any money on anyone else would he? To call anyone a miser who gives more money than most is insensative at best and biased at worst. Judging people who do give is, in and of itself, an uncharitable deed.

If a billionare offered you a million dollars, an ordinary guy offered you a thousand, and you could only accept one of the gifts, which would you take? If our nation only gives 10% which feeds 1,000 people and another nation gives 90% which feeds 100 people, who fed more people?

Call it what you will, but it doesn't make you right, or insightful.

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What was that phrase about "FROM each according to his ability, TO each according to their need."?

[Silver Cheetah]

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Originally posted by Fljotsdale:


What was that phrase about "FROM each according to his ability, TO each according to their need."?

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Um, was that not Marx? Not sure if Ron'll go for it... [img]smile.gif[/img]

I totally agree, by the way... Any other recipe is a recipe for disaster, as the wealthier get more that way, and the poor get poorer. One word: revolution.

[Fljotsdale]

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Originally posted by Ziroc:


Are you implying that I am giving Yorick special treatment and that I am "conveniently overlooking" this posts? You need to be careful what you say, because this is not true. I just understood WHY he was so mad, he LIVED and SAW (With his OWN EYES) what happened in NY, and was personally effected by this.

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This is why most of us have tried to be very tolerant with Yorick...

The fact is, though (changing topic a little), that since Sept 11 EVERYONE has become oversensitive and easily irritated by stuff that rarely bothered us prior to that date. If you consider the sort of posts people got castigated/banned/suspended for before Sept 11, they were in no way like the stuff people are getting castigated/suspended/banned for since then.
I think it is time we took a more tolerant attitude to EVERYONE, not just Yorick, and permitted the free expression of opinion once again, as we used to. There is nothing wrong with sarcasm - only with personal, hate-filled insult. Sarcasm is a normal tool of debate.

[Silver Cheetah]

Mangess!!

Will respond to the rest of your points later today or tomorrow..

Here I am merrily posting away with a deadline staring me straight in the face. Why is the newsletter not written? Er, cos I was far more interested in posting on Ironworks... [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Ziroc]

Start a new 'part 2' thread, thread has reached 150 posts.