Hi Ian, On 04/01/2008, ian glendinning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Er excuse me Peter, who mentioned "drunkard" .... please read the > thread before falling for Platt's filthy rhetoric.
England's Daily Mail supplied Platt's original scenario. My goodwill ? ... goes a long way Peter ... but has limits based on > existing practical responsibilities (to a nuclear and extended family > basically) ... but those evolve over time. I was trying to illustrate > that these things have practical limits - I'm no different. I agree, as an intellectual being I have to recognise that responsibility for myself comes first, followed by family, friends, neighbours, local community, the human race, other mammals, all of life and Gaia. Particular situations can alter the order. Anyone who says either "all care should be free (and I'm prepared to > fund it with my and my society's money and time)" or "I wouldn't lift > a finger to help anyone in need" is an idiot. Probably true. I provided a set of > questions - simple, specific, practical (no philsophising required, > unless asked to justify afterwards) - with varying degrees of input > from the helper side, depending on the needy person's actual > circumstance. Platt ignored them all as usual. > > BTW Simply "quitting the day job" to help ... is rarely the best > option if you weigh it up. Without "earning" your own resources, you > have little help to give, except handwringing and cold-comfort. > Everyone needs to decide what their best contribution is. (I could > send you a personal offline note on my own "career" plans .... if you > are genuienly interested .... they're not "secret" but it's not > appropriate for public debate.) Ian, it's very unlikely that we'll ever meet except by email so your personal career plans, interesting though they sound, are none of my business. Even Entwinkling has social value. -Peter Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
