Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:37:59 -0400 From: Technical Information <tech_info@threespace.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: Helping victims of terror Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010914083459.021914b8@threespace.com> In-Reply-To: <Springmail.105.1000426081.0.61946900@www.springmail.com>
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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 <milo@cyberlifelabs.com> 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
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