If you are physically incapable of the fighting the fires yourself (too old, no legs, born without a head, whatever....), by your logic then....you are prohibited from supporting the fire fighters.
Or are you willing to provide some caveats...? On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're not getting it. analogy time: > > firefighters. dangerous job, one they choose. But the "ruling > bargain" is that fires are random accidents. > > But what about arsonists you ask? The fires aren't random. Exactly. > That's when the whole community would pitch in to both put out the > fires and catch the arsonist. So arson is analogous to war: the whole > community chips in and "fights". Once the arsonist is caught, back to > normal operations: I got back to my job, you to yours, and the > firefighters continue to train. > > But let's say a small section of the community of the decided it was > ok to be arsonists, and started fires on purpose. I'm not going to > chip in to help them, and I"m going to fight to chip in to change the > law that allows them to do it. Further I'm going to try to keep > firefighters from fighting these fires that are "legal", but > definitely not accidents or caused by "arsonists". This is analogous > to Iraq. > > So what I"m saying is that Robert is advocating his starting of the > "legal" fires, but asking the firefighters to fight them. > > That violates the ruling bargain. therefore if Robert wants to start > fires, he should fight them; because firefighters didn't sign up to do > that. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:258718 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
