At 10:15 PM 8/1/01, Jim Sharkey wrote:
>Puzzled at the confusion, Jeroen wrote:
>
> >It amazes me over and over again, the talent of some people on this
> >list to misinterpret what I write.
>
>Perhaps you need to be more clear. Please see below.
>
> >Also, I didn't say the US tells their poor "tough luck -- no money,
> >no education". That statement was an extreme example of what a
> >government that doesn't provide free education *might* say to its
> >poor.
>
>Actually, Jeroen, you really *did* say that, whether you meant to or not.
>Please reread the following statement you made in regards to the method of
>payment for the US education system:
>
> >>How do you handle it in the US? Let parents pay the bill themselves?
> >>Then what do you do with children whose parents can't afford it?
> >>Tell those kids: "tough luck for you, but it isn't our fault that
> >>you weren't born into a rich family, so you'll just have to do
> >>without even basic education"?
>
>The way this reads to me is, you asked a question: "How do you handle it in
>the US?"
>
>You then aswered that question it with several rhetorical questions/theories
>which certainly *appeared* to be you answering your own question. Now, I
>can't speak for what you may have *really* meant, but it seemed mighty clear
>to me that you were attributing that attitude to the US.
>
>If I said to you, in regards to a country's euthanasia policies: How do you
>handle your infirm and aged that don't wish to end their own lives?
>
>And then I followed that question immediately with the following:
>Pin them down and suffocate them? End their lives to keep them from being a
>drain on the resources of your nation?
>
>How would you take that? What would that say to you? Wouldn't you be
>inclined to think that that ignorant attitude was me saying "This is what I
>think they do there?"
The Netherlands
By William J. Hamblin and Daniel C. Peterson
<http://www.ldsworld.com/gems/farms/display/1,6417,103428,00.html>
(Sorry for quoting the whole earlier message, but I couldn't decide what to
snip without running a risk of changing the meaning . . . )
--Ronn! :)
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