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Re: Open Letter: I am all for the protest, but for these reasons...

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From: Pat Spacek
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 00:00
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Timothy D. Kuehn (timk@tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca) wrote:
: I presume from the rather ridiculous nature of your post that this
: is a joke.
: Personally, I think we more of those kinds of signs around. A good 
: day's work never hurt anyone.

 Unless, of course, you're a soldier in a war, in which case your work is 
good when you *do* hurt someone.

 (In all seriousness, though, people who sit around and say things like 
"A good day's work never hurt anyone" strike me as being the kind of 
Calvinist knobs that judge people on external accomplishments rather than 
internal virtues. Why be a good person when you can work hard and buy a 
nice car?)
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From: pspacek@ophelia.waterloo.net (Pat Spacek)
Subject: Re: Open Letter: I am all for the protest, but for these reasons...
Date: 1996/04/28
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