$640.00 to fill the tanks...

Grumman-581 wrote:
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:08:04 -0600, Newps wrote:
What's wrong with four kids?

Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources?

Well, I'll be dead before that happens. The problem right now is that
people have more kids than they can afford...but that wouldn't be a
problem if the government would stop paying for them.

Unfortunately, it tends to be the uneducated people who have the most
kids...

Ok, I'll agree on that one. Unfortunately, as someone already pointed
out, bad things happen when we try to limit the number or type of
children that people have.

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:03:56 -0500, Emily wrote:

Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources?

Well, I'll be dead before that happens.

ignorance does not solve any problems.

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Martin Hotze wrote:
On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:03:56 -0500, Emily wrote:

Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources?
Well, I'll be dead before that happens.

ignorance does not solve any problems.

That doesn't change the fact that it's true.

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:26:10 -0500, Emily wrote:

Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources?
Well, I'll be dead before that happens.

ignorance does not solve any problems.

That doesn't change the fact that it's true.

Yes, it is true. But you don't care to do anything to help all the peoples
(plural intended) after you. You even haven't shown any sympathy ...

#m
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Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources?
Well, I'll be dead before that happens.
ignorance does not solve any problems.
That doesn't change the fact that it's true.
Yes, it is true. But you don't care to do anything to help all the peoples
(plural intended) after you. You even haven't shown any sympathy ...

"Not showing sympathy" is not an example of ignorance. "Ignorance"
means lack of knowledge. It is not pejorative, but can be used to mean
"lack of knowledge of social graces"; in other words, "lower class". In
that sense it is an insult of the "your mother wears army boots" type.

Jose
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Martin Hotze wrote:
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 06:26:10 -0500, Emily wrote:

Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources?
Well, I'll be dead before that happens.
ignorance does not solve any problems.
That doesn't change the fact that it's true.

Yes, it is true. But you don't care to do anything to help all the peoples
(plural intended) after you. You even haven't shown any sympathy ...

If I showed sympathy for everyone who actual deserved it, I wouldn't be
able to function.

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:00:09 -0500, Emily wrote:

Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources?
Well, I'll be dead before that happens.
ignorance does not solve any problems.
That doesn't change the fact that it's true.

Yes, it is true. But you don't care to do anything to help all the peoples
(plural intended) after you. You even haven't shown any sympathy ...

If I showed sympathy for everyone who actual deserved it, I wouldn't be
able to function.

sympathy might be the wrong word (and it sure was lost in translation;
sorry, I am working on it).

#m
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Did you ever realize how much text fits in eighty columns? If you now consider
that a signature usually consists of up to four lines, this gives you enough
space to spread a tremendous amount of information with your messages. So seize
this opportunity and don't waste your signature with bull**** nobody will read.

Martin Hotze wrote:
sympathy might be the wrong word (and it sure was lost in translation;
sorry, I am working on it).

Perhaps the word "empathy" instead of "sympathy" would be more accurate?

Martin Hotze wrote:

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:03:56 -0500, Emily wrote:


Other than the fact that we are going to overpopulate the planet
deplete our resources?

Well, I'll be dead before that happens.


ignorance does not solve any problems.

Death does though.

Matt

On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:03:56 -0500, Emily
wrote:
Well, I'll be dead before that happens.

Personally, I haven't exactly scheduled my death yet and was kind of
thinking on being around for the next few hundred years or so... Of
course, my body might have different plans...

The problem right now is that people have more kids
than they can afford...but that wouldn't be a problem
if the government would stop paying for them.

It's a twofold problem... On one hand, the government is giving them
positive motivation for spitting out numerous kids and no negative
motivation to act responsibly... On the other hand, the people who
tend to have these many kids are often those of lesser intelligence in
our society and it is unreasonable to think that of of these genes
we're going to end up wth kids of greater intelligence... Of course,
there are probably exceptions to this rule, but if one was to treat it
as a generalization, one would not be terribly in error...

Ok, I'll agree on that one. Unfortunately, as someone already pointed
out, bad things happen when we try to limit the number or type of
children that people have.

Yeah, next thing you know, we will have college educated people
working behind the cash registers at McDonalds... Hell, we might even
get someone who works there that doesn't ask you if you want fries
with your order when your order was already just an order of fries...
Damn, next thing ya' know, they'll be able to operate a register with
*works* on it instead of *pictures*...