At 03:44 PM 8/2/01 +0200 Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM wrote:
>This is ridiculous. According to you, I should be *grateful* for losing my
>job last year, because if my parents hadn't gone to the same party 40-odd
>years ago, they would never have met and I would never have been born in the
>place. When Dan Minette lost his job last year, he should have been grateful
>for it, because if the ship carrying the Founding Fathers had sunk in the
>middle of the ocean, the United States and the company he worked for would
>probably never have existed in the first place, so he would never have had
>that job anyway.
No, this is completely different. In this case, Hans was a direct
beneficiary of a certain set of *policies*. As a beneficiary, we should
look very skeptically on his attacking of these same policies later.
Neither of the above examples involves a policy, or a post-facto
disagreement with the policy.
JDG
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