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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (229151)	4/30/2007 4:40:50 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

This is one of the most contentious threads on SI. Thats unfortunate because it used to be one of the best when Ken ran things. Some of us come here nowadays to sharpen our debating skills. I come here for a bit of R&R. Why would one come here who is so thin-skinned? I dont get it. She dishes it out to everyone with her slithery put downs followed by her ignores when you come back at her. Since i discovered she was X, i have tried to get her to admit her mistake regarding the terrorist and her kids debate we have a year or two ago. She puts me on ignore. This is a big issue to me. I am not for torture but in that extreme case, i think the authoriites and every american for that matter should do anything and everything they can to save her kids. If there are consequences for beating up a terrorist, i am willing to pay the price. But X, no way she was and i assume is PROUD to say that in the name of freedom of speech she would be proud to let her kids die. Nothing gets me angrier than this. Ask the other liberals on the thread. I wonder if they would all answer this way and do nothing. I doubt it but who knows anymore.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (229151)	4/30/2007 5:47:24 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I;m not sure I understand. She paid her tuition the same way others did. How is that a misuse? Do you mean because it's a state university? I went to UVa. for grad school. Does getting an education from a state U. imply some kind of obligation? If so, then I know an awful lot of people who are in debt. I guess that means I am, also. We get our educations as preparation for life. No one knows exactly what that life will be, what demands will be made, where we will end up. When you are 18 years old, you do the best you can to predict what might make you happy and provide a secure future. No one knows if he or she will marry, have children, end up the sole breadwinner, or stay at home. Also, Iktomi was fully employed as an attorney after graduation-- not an intern. I;m not sure where you got the intern idea. I have always known she worked after graduation and where. She worked, as I did, had babies and stopped working, as I did, and then she did sub work, and got her teaching cert, and taught, as I in my own way did, working it around the children's schedule. I don't understand this arbitrary placing of valuation on lives, as if we can measure anyone's objectively. It seems extremely counterproductive. I can understand having anger or indignation about things, but not the way it is sometimes expressed around here.