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From: aesop@milton.acs.washington.edu (Jeff Boscole)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Re: Akwesasne Notes -- Basic Call to Consciousness 1977
Summary: fascist dictatorial makers of blind psychological rules
Keywords: guilt, shame, fear, anger, spiritual slavery, greed, despair
Message-ID: <1468@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 90 10:48:25 GMT
Reply-To: aesop@milton.acs.washington.edu (Jeff Boscole)
Followup-To: $10 bills
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Lines: 17

>From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)

> If you saw a ten dollar bill lying on the sidewalk, would you pick it up? 
> A greedy person would pick it up.  A self-interested person would leave it
> there, realizing that it doesn't belong to them, that someone will be
> looking for it, and sooner or later they'll lose something that they will
> want someone else to leave there.

I dispute this.  A "needy" person picks it up.  Somebody solving the litter
problem picks it up.  Someone respecting the USA picks it up, recyling a
bill so that it won't become defaced.  Someone educating another about the
problem of carelessness picks it up.  

We might recognize that people don't "own" money anyway.  What they lease
is the privilege of stewardship over some promissary notes.

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