On 29 Jan 2004 07:53:14 -0800, (basskisser) wrote:


Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
conservatives. John Stuart Mill

Obviously, Mr. Mill didn't spend much time in *this* newsgroup!

Give him a fish and you feed a man for a day, teach him how to fish
and you feed him for a lifetime... (A conservative) It is this, I
think, that partially differentiates Liberals and Conservatives. To
you, handouts are the way to be unselfish. To me, teaching a trade is
the way to be unselfish.

How do you define 'selfish'? Harry Krause, in an earlier post, said
that conservatives thought selfishness was the greatest good (or words
to that effect). To me, true selfishness is doing whatever is in one's
short and long term best interests. This holds for nations also. Given
this definition, selfishness *is* the greatest good.

Chew on it.




John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

John H wrote:

On 29 Jan 2004 07:53:14 -0800, (basskisser) wrote:


Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
conservatives. John Stuart Mill

Obviously, Mr. Mill didn't spend much time in *this* newsgroup!

Give him a fish and you feed a man for a day, teach him how to fish
and you feed him for a lifetime... (A conservative) It is this, I
think, that partially differentiates Liberals and Conservatives. To
you, handouts are the way to be unselfish. To me, teaching a trade is
the way to be unselfish.

How do you define 'selfish'? Harry Krause, in an earlier post, said
that conservatives thought selfishness was the greatest good (or words
to that effect). To me, true selfishness is doing whatever is in one's
short and long term best interests. This holds for nations also. Given
this definition, selfishness *is* the greatest good.

Chew on it.




John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!


The standard definition of selfish:

Devoted to or concerned with one's own advantage or welfare to the
exclusion of regard for others.

In other words, Republicans.

BTW, you are quoting Ayn Rand there...at least her philosophy. Ann of
the Turgid Prose, as we called her in high school.


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On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:17:53 -0500, Harry Krause
wrote:

John H wrote:

On 29 Jan 2004 07:53:14 -0800, (basskisser) wrote:


Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
conservatives. John Stuart Mill

Obviously, Mr. Mill didn't spend much time in *this* newsgroup!

Give him a fish and you feed a man for a day, teach him how to fish
and you feed him for a lifetime... (A conservative) It is this, I
think, that partially differentiates Liberals and Conservatives. To
you, handouts are the way to be unselfish. To me, teaching a trade is
the way to be unselfish.

How do you define 'selfish'? Harry Krause, in an earlier post, said
that conservatives thought selfishness was the greatest good (or words
to that effect). To me, true selfishness is doing whatever is in one's
short and long term best interests. This holds for nations also. Given
this definition, selfishness *is* the greatest good.

Chew on it.




John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!


The standard definition of selfish:

Devoted to or concerned with one's own advantage or welfare to the
exclusion of regard for others.

In other words, Republicans.

BTW, you are quoting Ayn Rand there...at least her philosophy. Ann of
the Turgid Prose, as we called her in high school.

Then Ms Rand must have her head screwed on straight.

John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

"John H" wrote ...

Then Ms Rand must have her head screwed on straight.

You've never read "Atlas Shrugged"?

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:43:33 -0800, "-rick-" wrote:


"John H" wrote ...

Then Ms Rand must have her head screwed on straight.

You've never read "Atlas Shrugged"?


"Who was John Galt?" Was that 'Atlas Shrugged' or "The Fountainhead".
I read both, many years ago, and don't remember much of "Atlas
Shrugged" except that it was hard to get into. I enjoyed "The
Fountainhead" very much.


John H

On the 'Poco Loco' out of Deale, MD
on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay!

-rick- wrote:

"John H" wrote ...

Then Ms Rand must have her head screwed on straight.

You've never read "Atlas Shrugged"?


I doubt he's read the classic comics versions of much of anything.

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