Howard Brazee wrote:
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:02:56 -0400, "kurttrail"
wrote:

Who are you helping? (Only people on this forum are reading your
posts).

If I get one person to reconsider to continue to enable fat lazy
fools, then I feel I have helped.

Life's all about helping others. Even if they are fools. Is the
world better off when fools suffer than when fools don't suffer?

It is better off when they aren't enabled by others to continue in their
foolish ways.


And these aren't forums, but newsgroups.

Newsgroups aren't types of forums?

Nope.


How are you helping them? (By persuading us that software
shouldn't be safer - because the victims deserve what they get?)

Where did I say anything about software shouldn't be safer? Quote
me.

If people deserve to be punished for being foolish, then the
implication is that we shouldn't work to prevent them from their just
consequences.

No, that isn't my implication at all. Negative reinforcement isn't
necessarily a punishment. Much of the time, it is just not
candy-coating the truth.

You can't make people smarter, all you can do is mitigate the
consequences of their foolishness.

LOL! You are a born enabler.

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