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To: jlallen who wrote (46919)	5/8/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

JLA--- Just popped in before going to dinner. I will comment more extensively later. The most immediate point is your denial of the use of the term "greed", which you in fact used twice...later, paisan...

To: jlallen who wrote (46919)	5/8/1999 8:11:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 67261

JLA--- As promised, I return to comment. I shall be brief on this one, and say more if it seems warranted as we go along. How can I disagree with your observation when it is, frankly, platitudinous. Doubtless everyone could be better than they are, and it is clear that spirituality is an elite preoccupation. Furthermore, life is about choices....But there are different levels of difficulty to the choices we make, whether because they involve arduous discipline or because what is correct is obscure. It is inappropriate to condemn people for failing to be heroic. It is inappropriate to stigmatize the desire to raise one's family in modest comfort, and the anxiety about the risk to oneself or a family member of being laid off, as "greed". It seems to me to be lacking in elementary sympathy, the ability to imagine the other guy's position...