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In article <6akni21clplgijke2uklaqnbvuamvi6ofi@4ax.com>,
 Binyamin Dissen <postingid@dissensoftware.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:37:38 -0500 bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> 
> :>Unsolicited gifts to the Amish community that suffered the tragic loss 
> :>of its children have approached $700,000 in value.
> 
> :>So, what do the Amish do?
> 
> :>They set up a fund for the gunman's family as well as for their own 
> :>injured and dead and bereft. 
> 
> :>People just don't come any classier or more worthy of respect.
> 
> So the next time someone sees his family needs help, he can just go and shoot
> at the Amish and get his family taken care of.
> 
> Re-enforcing bad behavior.

Um, dude? The guy is dead. Reinforce away.

Oh, wait. You mean reinforcing all those other psycho killers lurking in 
the shadows, watching and waiting for their opportunity to kill a bunch 
of little girls in a schoolhouse and then commit suicide. 

I see your point.

> 
> "Those that are kind to the cruel end up being cruel to the kind".

Yeah, you may be right: victims helping an innocent widow and her baby 
is just bad on general free-market-economic carrot/stick "principles". 
By combining her loss with their own, those Amish are just asking for it.

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 Stompin' out rhythms
 'till the headstones dance on their graves"