CH> and got talking to him about his "plight".  To my  surprise he told
 CH> me that his family were very wealthy and keep bugging him to "come
 CH> home"; but that he stays on the street, sleeping in alleys and
 CH> deserted buildings because he liked it that way. Strange world;
 CH> isn't it?
 DB> Quite a few of them care about their independance much more than any
 DB> monitary well being. The one's I knew, came to the decision the rat-
 DB> race was more than a race... it was a form of financial slavery.
 DB> Usually, something has happened to them somewhere along the line to
 DB> where they've also never fully gotten over the trauma.
 DB> Their values are different than the mainstream. That's why there's so
 DB> many negative encounters with them.
Don, thanks for your perspective. This is beginning to make some sense, much
more sense than the one word answer of "freedom" that I got from a regular. I
had a problem with the choice of cold over warm, hungry over full, etc. I'm a
little bit curious about the trauma you speak of. As an example, are you
talking about a natural disaster with no insurance, some sort of system
victimization, a mental breakdown, or something entirely different?
Tom Rightmer - A Victims' Rights Advocate
... How do they get the deer to cross at that yellow road sign?
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