a young man was trying to decide whether he should go to uni or get a job.
after a while he decided to plant a tree.
--- On Sat, 27/9/08, ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [MD] A modern allegory
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Received: Saturday, 27 September, 2008, 10:42 AM
> [Khaled]
> The republican way of doing it, is for someone to deliver a
> 'contribution' to
> the dean's office, to elevate that poor girls grade.
>
> [Arlo]
> Yeah, you're right. And I suppose that father would
> have to explain to his
> daughter that it is okay for part of her GPA to be taken
> away and given to
> Mark, who's serving in the military. He'd have to
> fess up that it's not "taking
> away her GPA and giving it to others" that's at
> issue, its giving it to slutty,
> partying, lazy, stupid "classmates".
>
> I also wonder what that daughter's reaction would be
> towards being given the
> option to have her GPA lowered from 3.0 to 2.98 if doing so
> would cure her
> classmates of cancer. Since the dialogue is in Platt's
> hands, of course, I'm
> sure she would say something Dickensesque ("let them
> die and decrease the
> surplus population").
>
> I also imagine that she'd come to realize that all the
> problems in the world
> are the result of evil collectivists and radical leftists,
> everything from teen
> pregnancy to the financial crisis... all the fault of libs.
> Oh, and since Ham
> chimed in with (surprise, surprise) praise for Platt's
> low-brow "parable", I
> suppose he'd work in those damnable
> "nihilists" as well.
>
>
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