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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (89403)	11/23/2004 12:29:19 PM
From: redfish	Respond to of 108807

"Unless it harms you (like snorting cocaine) ... then BY DEFINITION it has socially redeeming value." Without opium use, we would not have "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree" and without absinthe, Van Gogh might not have amounted to much, so I don't think you can say drug abuse never has socially redeeming value.

To: ManyMoose who wrote (89403)	11/23/2004 12:36:21 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I love antique hunting- but I often feel morally ambivalent about it. Why? Because it often involves having superior knowledge and getting things from people for far less than they would sell them for if they knew what those things were worth. Very few things are not morally ambivalent. I chose my favorite leisure activity, because like hunting, I feel it is laden with some moral ambivalence, if you really think about it. Every amazing deal you get, is at someone else's cost, and maybe they really needed the money. I don't see any moral ambivalence in helping a child learn to read, or helping battered women, or feeding the hungry. Maybe it's there- if it is, let me know, and I love the justification for the socially redeeming aspects of antique hunting. I will be using that next weekend on my husband.