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In article 
<Pine.OSF.3.96.1001106180039.9688B-100000@alpha1.csd.uwm.edu>, Carol 
Lee Smith <human@csd.uwm.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Nicolas Martin wrote:
> 
> > Carol, have any unfortunates ever received any care from you? And, no, 
> > I 
> > don't mean an automatic monthly donation to Working Assets.
> 
> Should I have a war chest the size of M.Teresa's I would be sure to treat
> those under my care better than she did.
> 
> They would receive the same care which I would expect to get for myself.
> 
> How would you treat them?
> 



Having been given the opportunity to directly answer my question, you 
evaded. Your answer was not only unresponsive, it revealed you to be an 
unmitigated hypocrite. You criticize the woman and her "warchest," but 
you offer the poor and infirmed nothing. Not a single impoverished, 
sick, or injured person has gained comfort or care at your hands. You 
have no "warchest," perhaps, but do you having nothing to offer? Could 
you not better devote the time you spend sniping on the Internet to 
helping the needy? Do you have no money at all that can help a single 
person eat or buy medicine? Have you no time or capacity to visit a 
hospital, hospice, clinic, to say a kind word or lend a hand? No, your 
role in life is to be a harpie, a nihilist, a perpetual critic, a 
spokesperson for people with whom you would never associate. Why don't 
you consider turning your theories about how people should be treated 
into something you actually practice instead of a bumper sticker slogan.

How I treat people is my private affair. I do what i consider worthy and 
appropriate, and, despite the fact that I'm an atheist, I don't hurl 
bricks at this Catholic woman who did some good deeds and probably had 
some imperfections. Whatever her failures, she clearly accomplished more 
than you are destined to do. I'd love to have you tell my Guatemalan 
indian friends that they should get the same care you "would expect for 
myself." The poor don't subsist on your rhetoric, they need substance. 
Your arrogance is no substitute for effort. Try it.

Nicolas Martin