From: Randall Parker 

Rich,

Since its what I really believe I'm for school vouchers so that people
receive better educations. SInce its what I believe I'm for a smaller
government since it just wastes resources and slows down economic growth.

I'm not going to sacrifice myself in spite of the idiocy and opposition to
constructive change evinced by so many others.

Sacrifice is not the answer.

In , esteemable richhong{at}hawksci.com Richard
Hong encoded his thoughts thusly:
> >> I don't think the world is best improved by sacrifice. I
think it is best
> improved by industrial development by capitalists, scientists, and
> engineers. <<
>
> Randall,
>
> First of all, it doesn't seem at all logical to suggest that sitting on my
> ass in my spare time and keeping all of my money is better for the world
> than putting some of that free time and money into sacrifice.
>
> Second, if that's what you *really* believe, then why aren't you using your
> computer skills to help train a new generation of thinkers in your spare
> time?  In the last 18 months alone I've used my contacts and skills to
> arrange for the donation of dozens of older PCs being replaced in
> businesses, refurbished them with multimedia kits or CPU and RAM upgrades
> (sometimes at my own expense and with my volunteer time) and now three area
> churches have "computer labs" for their after-school
programs, two of which
> serve underprivileged kids (the third being my own church, where the
> computer lab augments our day care center).
>
> That isn't sacrifice which makes the world better even in your view?  I'm
> sure that there's a volunteer organization near you that could use someone
> to spend some spare time tutoring kids, esp. in math and science, or
> implementing computer installations for them.
>
> If you are really principled about opposing the "handout"
form of charity,
> there's still plenty of opportunities for you to volunteer your time and
> money to give people a hand up.  But if you won't do that *either*, then I
> would have to question whether you actually care about making the world a
> better place for anyone other than yourself.
>
> Rich
>
>
>

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