On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:36:37 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 18:19:03 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:



And if I found a way to somehow occupy 20% of YOUR weekend time with
bull**** that annoyed you, and repeated this every weekend for the entire
summer, what would YOU do? Suffer with it in silence?

That would make you my wife ;-) . Oh, and I WOULD be ****ed off.
Don't get me wrong, I sympathize with your pain. I just don't agree
that you have the right to take the law into your own hands as a
solution.


Dave

I didn't ask for your opinion. I asked what you would do.

I'm not sure. I know what I wouldn't do and that's kill another living
being.

I tend to be more of a "defense" mentality, rather than an "offense"
mentality. If I found that there were "critters" doing damage to my
yard, I would most likely take steps to minimize their ability to
enter my yard. Rather than getting into a ****ing contest with my
neighbor (And remember we have to live here and maintaining civility
with the neighbors is important), I'd just put up a fence.

I believe in personal responsibility to the truest sense. I take
responsibility for things that I have direct control over. I don't
expect other people to clear the path for me, and I don't expect other
people to expect me to clear their path either.

I believe in taking steps to protect my own assets, I don't believe
that it's other people's responsibility to protect them for me. While
some people can be deliberately negligent, the line between what I
consider "gross" and "incidental" negligence is a bit foggy, and not
etched in stone. Dog poop on my yard though, falls squarely into the
"incidental" category. In the grand scheme of things, it's just not
that big of a deal to me.

Dave