Re: [b] -- Thanks a lot

[John Walker <johnw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 01 September 2001 18:01, Nick Mailer wrote:

> > Yes, how much better to be in a more civilise culture where you are not
> > allowed opinions and emotions about peope because they are related to you
> > in some complex and intangiable way.
>
> Good heavens. You really do leave out conveniently hefty chunks of the
> bible, don't you John?

There is a great difference between looking after and respecting your family, 
and lying about pretending to like them. To ignore this is childish.

My grandmother was a horrible woman. She made my father's life hellish 
whenever she could, since he was a child. She died of cancer, and took two 
years to do it. In the end she was entirely composed of cancerous cells - 
Cancer Woman.

So of course we looked after her, travelling endlessly back and forth to 
Wales. Why? Because she was a member of the family.

But it would be a pathetic lie if I had to pretend that I thought she was the 
bestest woman ever, because a more civilised society would *demand* that I 
did.

That you immediately jump to an easy jibe about the Bible  demonstrates you 
unwillingness to consider the point that in a reasonable society, one is 
entitled to have opinions and feelings about people based on what they are 
like. Try harder.

John


 bit selfish i should be a fishmonger a h ha ha hah ha 


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