Posted by Lou Pilder on March 6, 2003, at 11:59:21
In reply to Re: Lou's (note) reply to Dena's post-6K-b, posted by Dena on March 5, 2003, at 21:39:57
Dena,
You wrote,[...each person has the ability to choose to take offense or let things go...].
If you are making an absolute statement that [each] is equivalant to [evry], then you are saying that every person has that choice. Now if that is what you are writing, then are you saying that evry person here also can make other choices and that no one has a [compulsion] to do anything?
I knew a person that horded. Her house had just a path to the parts of the house needed to live. All the rest of the house had things piled up to the cieling. She had not thrown anything away for many years. We tried to help her, for her husband had tried , and she said when asked to clear out the house,"I do not have the choice to throw this all out. If I do, my mother will die."
I knew another person that continually wrote into the local paper that the government was opressing the citizens and denying them their liberty. He formulated a group to make the government listen to his grievences. Night and day he passed out liturature , formed marches, met with civic leaders, got elected to office, was harrassed and ridiculed by his peers. He was willing to die than to accept what he considered injustice. His peers told him to just accept it for peace's sake. He said that he had no choice.He was asked why he could not choose to let it go. He answerd them and said, "Give me liberty or give me death."
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:200824
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