----- Original Message -----
From: "Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 7:03 AM
Subject: RE: Profit RE: World Attitude (was: Re: Down Under Attitude)
> > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> > Van: John D. Giorgis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Verzonden: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 1:20 PM
> > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Onderwerp: RE: Profit RE: World Attitude (was: Re: Down Under Attitude)
>
> > >I suggest you go back and read my previous messages on this.
> >
> > Re-reading your message won't make me any more likely to agree with
> > you.
>
> In case you did not notice, and apparently you indeed did not notice, I
was
> replying to Ronn's post, not yours.
>
>
> > >What I wrote had nothing to do with getting building contracts, what
> > >I was talking about was the *morality* of making a profit, due to an
> > >event that has cost thousands of lives.
> >
> > So, if you are not talking about building contractors earning profit
> > then *WHO* is it that you talking about the morality of their earning
> > a profit?
>
> <SIGH>
>
> You really do not bother to really read my posts, do you? I was talking
> about *morality*, while Ronn was saying that building contracts would
almost
> certainly go to American construction companies -- which is probably true,
> but not relevant to my question whether earning a profit when rebuilding
the
> WTC is or is not immoral.
>
> You know, having to explain myself over and over again because people are
> not capable of understanding what I say, and having to correct such people
> over and over again is, to say the least, getting very tiresome. It is
> however one hell of a way to kill a discussion... :(
The death of thousands of Americans in NYC and DC is one of the saddest
things to happen during my lifetime. Jeroen, I seriously doubt you
appreciate how much *I* grieve for them and their families, and I am only
one out of three hundred million Americans and uncountable millions
elsewhere who are feeling much the same way I do.
>From where I stand, it would be greviously immoral not to rebuild the damage
in NYC and DC, and build things better than they were before.
The example set by the passengers of the plane that crashed in Pa. where
these passengers fought terrorists in order that others might live,
sacrificing their lives to prevent a greater disaster, proves to me that
living monuments are better than dead monuments. We should move forward
strengthened by their memories rather than weakened by grief forever.
There is much work for us to do here.
Profit is the byproduct of work in this part of the world, but not usually
the sole reason work is done.
We want our buildings back.
New Yorkers want their skyline back.
Business needs the office space.
Growth demands they be replaced.
One might suspect that you would prefer some dead monument so that you might
point at it and say "Look,
there is where America was kicked in the teeth", or
"There lies the fruit of Americas villanny".
I honestly wonder at the depth of your hatred of America.
xponent
rob
