From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 14 5:55: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7B537B40A for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 05:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ATLANTA.threespace.com ([24.21.224.204]) by femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010914125504.JHIF18761.femail1.sdc1.sfba.home.com@ATLANTA.threespace.com> for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 05:55:04 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010914083459.021914b8@threespace.com> X-Sender: tech@threespace.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:37:59 -0400 To: FreeBSD Chat From: Technical Information Subject: Re: Re: Helping victims of terror In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have to agree. This "scientific detachment" that you (Milo Hyson) advocate using here only shows how pitifully removed you are from the human tragedy here, which has elicited an emotional, not a scientific, response from most of us. --Chip Morton At 08:08 PM 9/13/2001, 1908@pipline.com wrote: >What if someone picked up a table and threw it at your toe? Would a >research scientist in the middle of the woods ask "why?" > > >Milo Hyson wrote: >I would have to agree here. Most Americans don't really care about the other >side of things. The last person anybody ever blames is themselves. It's >always somebody else's fault. If you stub your toe on a table leg, you get >angry and yell at the desk. "Ow! God damnit, piece of shit." You never think >to yourself, "We'll that was stupid of me. I should have been more careful >where I was walking." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message