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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JBTFD who wrote (505450)	12/8/2003 10:47:19 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Well, one might say you could be grateful that you were born with the economic opportunities that you have had. Grateful to whom, Mark? Those opportunities did not come to me because society trained its generosity upon me. Members of society are involved in the same struggle as I. I think many Americans have a decidedly hard time putting themselves into the shoes of others who have been less fortunate than them. Why should they? If others are less fortunate and can provide no benefit to me, then why do I owe them any consideration at all? I owe them nothing. I am completely free to let them die in misery. The economic opportunities in this country are NOT equal to all. Theoretically, maybe, but not in actual fact. Well, our abilities are not equal to all. That is just the way of the world. So if you have no sense of gratefulness in that sense, you and I could not be more opposite in our bearings. Gratefulness to whom!? Why do I owe someone merely for being a part of society. I owe no one a single thing. I did not ask to be born here. I only owe those who have given me some benefit, in such cases I pay my debts either by gratefulness, by cash or some other exchange in value. Outside of that scheme, I owe not a single soul. To whom are you so grateful, Mark? I think you are not grateful at all. You are afraid. And you should be.