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Article #167Re: Open Letter: I am all for the protest, but for these reasons...
From: David Kennedy
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <4lvbik$tvc@ophelia.waterloo.net>, Pat Spacek <pspacek@ophelia.waterloo.net> wrote: > > (In all seriousness, though, people who sit around and say things like >"A good day's work never hurt anyone" strike me as being the kind of >Calvinist knobs that judge people on external accomplishments rather than >internal virtues. Why be a good person when you can work hard and buy a >nice car?) You're assuming that "success"="monitary wealth", and that "rise"= "rise the fiscal ladder". Why can't a "good day's work" mean "A day spent being a good person"? David -- The opinions expressed are most likely mine, but might be my pet turtle's. Any similarities to my pet hampster's opinions are coincidental.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108225,3189432105485e58 X-Google-Attributes: gid108225,public X-Google-Thread: fc3d0,3189432105485e58 X-Google-Attributes: gidfc3d0,public X-Google-Thread: 10f6dc,3189432105485e58 X-Google-Attributes: gid10f6dc,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,3189432105485e58 X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public X-Google-Thread: f99dc,3189432105485e58 X-Google-Attributes: gidf99dc,public From: dj2kenne@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (David Kennedy) Subject: Re: Open Letter: I am all for the protest, but for these reasons... Date: 1996/04/30 Message-ID: <DqoFrE.3pv@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> X-Deja-AN: 152228352 sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) references: <4l838v$ott@omega.metrics.com> <4lk216$jvb@bmerhc5e.bnr.ca> <1996Apr26.124441.10498@tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca> <4lvbik$tvc@ophelia.waterloo.net> organization: University of Waterloo newsgroups: kw.general,uw.general,can.infohighway,can.infobahn,ont.general