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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (89764)	10/12/2008 5:55:34 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541835

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. If the human race were unfettered by people who don't like change, we would often (probably) go too far too fast. There is value in incremental change. As an individual I am a change lover, but if I try to step outside of myself, I can see the value in people who hold people like me back from changing things too fast :-) So that's what I'm saying. There is value in ballast, for example. You could just say "It makes a ship heavier and slows it down"- but y'know, sometimes you really need ballast, and sometimes "drag" is a very good thing. And it's impossible to know right now what were the right things to do, and what was wrong- because it will take years and years to see the ramifications of what is happening now. We can only take a stab- but I know that both sides are needed, and that always makes me feel better about being alive in the midst of great controversy. It doesn't make me any more anxious to interact with people who might hate me for my ideas (and more than I want to interact with lions who would eat me because I am meat)- but it gives me great peace of mind to know that most things end up serving some sort of beneficial purpose.

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