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Politics : Fahrenheit 9/11: Michael Moore's Masterpiece -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (1172)	6/29/2004 6:09:00 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2772

Lila didn't mind it too much when it was someone else's son doing the dying.

To: DayTraderKidd who wrote (1172)	6/29/2004 6:20:22 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2772

How responsible are you for the way you think? You were raised by certain people, given a certain diet and standard of living as you were raised, sent to college or not sent to college, depending on your circumstances- now for society to run smoothly we have to blame people for their actions, it just makes things run more neatly if we pretend that every crack addicted poverty created addict is really "responsible" for his or her own actions, but logically, it doesn't appear to me that people are all that responsible. We are accidents of birth and nurture, and we are acted upon by circumstances beyond our control. I cannot blame people for the way they are, really- I can FEEL that I blame them, but the rational part of me cannot blame them. I can hope for external things that will change people in ways I think they should change (Moore's movie, for example, will change people in ways I consider good)- but I cannot blame nor can I praise, accidents of birth and fortune.