From: dpe@inel.gov (Don Palmrose)
Subject: Re: Punishing achievement (still replies to Aug 4? summary)
Organization: INEL EG&G Idaho
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 16:12:16 GMT

In article <nate.449@psygate.psych.indiana.edu>, nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
> 
> eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK) writes:
> >nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle) writes:
> >}    Punishment, forsooth. "It's just for your own good..."
> 
> >1) << Sounds of me rolling on the desktop with pains invoked by so much
> >laughter >>
> 
>     Why do I get the idea that you're not taking this in the serious,
> well-meant, compassionate, multi-cultural spirit which the Democratic 
> leaders like to flaunt so much? (for that matter, why am I not taking
> it seriously myself?)
> 
> >Democrats seem to assume that all people are bad (a "born guilty"
> >complex) and those well off won't willingly help those less fortunate.
> 
>     Not at all. Only Republicans are born guilty, and that's only if 
> the child is registered as a Republican before emerging from the womb.
> If you're a conservative but weren't a Republican at the moment of 
> birth, you could still be Saved.
> 
> >The more rich one is, the more selfish he/she is, and the more they
> >should be taxed in order to make life more liveable for those have-nots.
> 
>     Right, but that's just because of the definition of money. Money is
> inherently evil, so the more of it you have the worse off you are. Honestly 
> you guys have just got to give the hair-shirts and life-of-denial stuff a 
> chance... you might really like it, and just think how warm and fuzzy you'll 
> feel knowing that you're now part of the exploited underclass.
> 
> >Republicans seem to blindly give the benefit of the doubt and trust
> >everybody (no matter how stupid granting that trust is).
> 
>     Right on, man, that's mistake number one. You don't want to trust 
> everbody (just me, in fact).
>
> 
> --
> Nathan Engle                        Software Juggler
> Psychology Department               Indiana University
> nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu      nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
> 
> 

Boy, is it getting deep in here?  I have to stand on my chair now when I read
Nathan's reply because it is getting sooo high.  ;-)  ;-)  

Don Palmrose

P.S. Nathan are you a former joke writer for David Letterman? :-)

Remember: Life is Short so Laugh Hard.....









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