On 2008-Dec-23, at 20:29, Lawrence Sica wrote: > Yes, but you cannot fault someone for trying or wanting to help. What > you can fault them for is if they did it in a monumentally stupid way.
I guess I'm talking about the cases where they want to help but you know, perhaps they don't really know how. See we all have egos, and for some people, the desire to be helpful and write "I am a helpful person who is helping the world" into their personal life story and into their self image is actually the driving concern. If in the end they didn't actually manage to help, or perhaps even made things worse, then they just skip over that part. Like, it seems, those charity workers. "But we're trying!!" Great, do it with someone else's money--oh wait, you do. So I fault them for failing. It doesn't have to be monumentally stupid, or mildly stupid. I just fault the failure. That charity has all the money and people and effort invested in helping, but they don't collect any stats about their success rate. Now why would that be? Stefano _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
