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To: KLP who wrote (191058)	12/30/2006 4:38:56 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793964

Of course what you write is true, but it's trite. What Teddy was meaning was that character is THE defining issue for a person. It is not. As I explained. What he was doing was puffing himself up as Mr Character who got to the top and he was hectoring slaves to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and they could do it too. Which perhaps they could if the plantation owner would just get his boot off their neck. I know there weren't slaves then, I am using slaves as an example to make my point clear. A factory production line worker with no education, no particular talent and not much else, is going to have some boot-strapping problems. Especially if he is drafted into the army to fight Teddy the Character's war for him, and dies in the fields of Flanders. Which is not to say character isn't important. It's just that it's not a single-variable determinant of one's life. Anyway, I wasn't so interested in that one as the idiotic anti-pacifist one. So I'll drop it. Mqurice