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To: Grainne who wrote (22370)	5/28/1998 3:07:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Hope your recovery is speedy. >>It seems to me that you, and the other people who post over here who advocate pure libertarian systems, are selfish and short-sighted in ways that, if your beliefs were put into general practice, would destabilize society and cause great suffering. It may seem that way but in actuality it is and has been the left/liberals that have always proven themselves selfish and short-sighted in ways that, when their beliefs were put into general practice, DID destabilize society and cause great suffering. Liberal nostrums: On Hunger Referring to people "who are simply not getting enough to eat" because they cannot "figure out how to make ends meet, how to get food on the table," you say: "We cannot stand by and let people in this nation starve." Well. Diagnosable malnutrition (as distinct from episodes of incidental hunger) is rare and almost always associated not "simply" with poverty but with alcoholism, drug addiction, child abuse and other pathologies. What is your understanding of America's starvation problem? A Clinton-Gore administration report says that among the American households living with "resource-constrained hunger" are 185,000 households with annual incomes exceeding $40,000. Can you explain this? sacbee.com And Can Kill Killer kids The real culprit in the recent spate of school shootings may be the current cult of self-esteem, according to two psychologists. "Teaching individual responsibility has been replaced by a self-esteem movement," Martin Seligman and Roger Weissberg wrote on the op-ed page of yesterday's USA Today. "Parents and educators now believe their first duty is to believe mantras, such as 'I am special.' High self-esteem is supposedly a vaccine against teen-age pregnancy, depression and suicide, drug abuse and violence. "Unfortunately, it turns out that genocidal maniacs, gang leaders and violent kids often have high self-esteem. We may yet find out if [accused Oregon killer Kip] Kinkel had the prototypical recipe for violence -- a mean streak plus an unwarranted sense of self-worth. When such a boy comes across a girl, parents or schoolmates who communicate that he is not all that worthy, he lashes out." washtimes.com