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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (3220)	12/1/2000 8:09:35 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

<<<That would be fine if we still had a society that accepted individual responsibility as an important principle. >>> What would be fine? Isn't the Sullivan article I posted your position? This is part of the windup of the article: "A Gore victory... will resonate... as the triumph of a liberalism that has replaced responsibility with victimhood...." I'm puzzled by your comment, which seems to take exception to an articulate explication of precisely your views! What would be fine?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (3220)	12/1/2000 11:48:41 PM
From: Esvida	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

What about investors who lost money and blamed on Gore? Are they not responsible for their lost money?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (3220)	12/2/2000 12:34:18 AM
From: Ev	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

That would be fine if we still had a society that accepted individual responsibility as an important principle. But what we have is a society that is focussed principally on victimization. So these people didn't need to take responsibility for their acts -- they just blame others for their mistakes and make themselves victims instead of responsible citizens. OK, it's time for an oldie but goodie. THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER CLASSIC VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. MODERN VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving. CBS, NBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper, and everybody cries when they sing "It's Not Easy Being Green." Jesse Jackson stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing "We shall overcome". Jesse then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Al Gore exclaims in an interview with Peter Jennings that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and calls for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his "fair share". Finally, the EEOC drafts the "Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act", retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government. Hillary gets her old law firm to represent the grasshopper in a defamation suit against the ant, and the case is tried before a panel of federal judges that Bill appointed from a list of single-parent welfare recipients. The ant loses the case. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it. The ant has disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.