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To: Neocon who wrote (2434)	2/19/2002 10:31:09 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) of 7720

I did enjoy that essay, Neo ... Is it your own? It deserves to be published for a wider audience. I am reminded of several people of liberal persuasion that I know well. One is a female professor who has developed a strong cause concerning the exploitation of third-world female factory workers, for whom she has boundless compassion. Yet, she herself is very wealthy and enjoys a commensurately luxurious life style. She seems able to regulate her distress over these disadvantaged women as if by a thermostat, turning it down to zero when she is preoccupied with other causes, such as serving on the membership committee for the elite Ladies Garden Club in her wealthy suburb. I have always been puzzled by this ability not only to pick and choose your causes, but also to be able to carefully regulate your emotional commitment to them by time and degree. It is as if the individual has decided that there is a requirement to allocate a specified portion of one's passion to the less fortunate, and that you can fulfill this responsibility by choosing from a menu of causes and then working out a schedule of convenient times when you will beat your breast and shed tears of lament over them.

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