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- From: sethb@fid.morgan.com (Seth Breidbart)
- Subject: Re: net.hugs?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.004450.5963@fid.morgan.com>
- Organization: my opinions only
- References: <lgl06rINNqsi@news.bbn.com> <j#mqpg#@lynx.unm.edu> <h4y1#k=@rpi.edu>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:44:50 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <h4y1#k=@rpi.edu> petitc@rpi.edu writes:
- >In article <j#mqpg#@lynx.unm.edu>, blowfish@carina.unm.edu (rON.) writes:
-
- >|> Actually we in soc.singles are quite safe.
- >|> We just simply expect people to stand up for themselves instead of being
- >|> propped up by everybody else in the group.
- >
- >
- > Ok, mister, you asked for it...
- >
- >
- > Can YOU do EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO by yourself? Hmmmm?
-
- No.
-
- > Can YOU make your very own cars FROM SCRATCH?
-
- No. What's your point?
-
- > Can YOU make all the things you take for granted?
- > And are you saying that, if you get sick you don't go to doctors?
- >
- > I THINK NOT! EVERYONE needs to work to help support each other---if you
- >people over in soc.singles generally feel that independance is _the_ ideal, then
- >you're saying that the way to live is "Screw everyone else---get what you want
- >out of life regardless of how it affects others."
-
- There's a major difference between relationships between equals (the
- soc.singles approach), and whining for help from everybody else (which
- I'll refrain from characterizing). The fact that I can stand up for
- myself doesn't mean that I never want help or friendship, it means
- that I'm offering help and friendship in return.
-
- > Sorry if I seem a bit pissed, but I really despise people who live under the
- >delusion that people NEVER need help from other people.
-
- I've never met anybody like that (by definition, almost).
-
- > *HUGS*, a @>---'--,----, and a :&) to whoever needs them.
-
- Some of us are much less promiscuous about our social relationships.
-
- Seth sethb@fid.morgan.com
-