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Strategies & Market Trends : Drillbits & Bottlerockets
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To: Original Mad Dog who wrote (4922)3/5/2001 8:00:50 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie  Read Replies (2) of 15481
 
I would rather live in a society that has more freedom and stresses personal responsibility (and accountability) and some crime than one that is highly regulated and with no crime. I believe that with every regulation, you lose a piece of the human heart and soul. At some point, the spirit of the society becomes crippled.

In the spirit of this philosophy, when I went on my walkabout yesterday in Singapore, I intentional spit on the sidewalk not once, but twice. I know, I know, why would I tempt fate like that? All that I can say is that I knew that I had a crack team of lawyers at home.<g>

Another interesting thing was that I ran across a pond filled with painted turtles. I sat down to watch them swim around. Apparently sitting down to watch turtles is the universal signal for "I am looking for a male prostitute" because that is exactly who approached me.

Frankly, I think that when you have a society that is inherently oppressive, the result is that the deviant behavior (I am using "deviant" in a non-judgemental way) goes underground but will tend to blossom there. So, behind that pretty exterior of the "crime free" society, there is an underground society that is exaggerated in its deviance.
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