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To: Sam who wrote (94899)	11/8/2008 8:35:42 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541806

the easy tendency is ignore context and stop asking why did we/I have this opportunity or why did we/I make this choice when it assuages our ego to do so. I certainly don't condone starting on third base and gloating like you hit a home run. It's unseemly and inapt. But that doesn't mean we can't analyze and identify which choices are more constructive than others and which scenarios are more conducive to producing the more constructive conditioned responses and promote the more helpful ones while discouraging the less helpful ones. I was watching an episode of Dr. G, Medical Examiner called "How Not To Die." The leading causes of death all derive from lifestyle choices. Poverty has a lot in common with that. There's a list floating around somewhere of the worst choices you can make, like having children before you're married and established or quitting school. We can make a big dent in poverty if we quit making excuses or blaming some bogeyman or worry about hurting some cultural feelings and be straightforward about behavior.