Thursday, January 28, 2010

Contrarian food for thought, or, "The Folly of Compassion for the Sake of Compassion"

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"Doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result is the deffinition of insanity." --Albert Einstein

It's not PC to think about, let alone talk about. But some guy named Paul Shirley asks: Is this really charity, encouraging people to repeat the actions which killed so many to begin with?[[h/t TheOtherMcCain]

"We were quick to vilify humans who were too slow to respond to the needs of victims, forgetting that the victims had built and maintained a major city below sea level in a known target zone for hurricanes. Our response: Make the same mistake again. Rebuild a doomed city, putting aside logic as we did."

New Orleans was a tragedy, but an avoidable one. You'll have flooding when you build a city on a swamp. You'll have a city razed to the ground when you "build" shanties on a fault-line. Do we really want to rebuild such disasters-waiting-to-happen again?

2 comments:

  1. undeniably honest... as we are to blame only big bad banks and predatory Wall Street, who by no terms should be excused fault; however, we are supposed to be hush-hush, and dare not expect those who willingly saught and signed for loans and homes they knew they could not possibly be accountable for. And for those who claim they were honestly unaware of the possible consequence, shame on them for not educating themselves. Lazy, self-righteous individuals who have convinced responsible, hardworking citizens that while they cannot hold these freeloading individuals accountable for their actions, or lackthereof, inforced by the stipulations of political correctness, they are also indebted to pay their living expenses. It is your responsibility and your's alone to educate yourself when making important and (supposedly) binding decisions/agreements... When something seems too good to be true, guess what? It usually is. Accountability is what's lacking in this country... starting from the very top.

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  2. Accountability all around would be helpful, rather than this "Don't judge me" nonsense. We don't say "fine" when people aks how we are because we are afraid of what they think, we don't because we know they DON'T CARE.

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