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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Mr. Sykora isn't civil?  Mr. Reagan isn't honest?
Message-ID: <647@whuxl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 09:47:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 09:47:03 1985
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> >/* brian@digi-g.UUCP (Merlyn Leroy) / 10:34 am  May 28, 1985 */
> 
> >Hurting someone: a criminal
> >    Not helping: a creep
> 
> How much do I have to help people so that I'm not a creep?  Why?
> 
> 						Mike Sykora

If somebody is lying wounded on the sidewalk are you obligated to help?
If an orphan is running around naked with a belly bloated from hunger
are you obligated to help?
If you bring a helpless infant into this world are you obligated to
feed and care for it?
Yes, we are all obligated as human beings to help each other out.
The reason is very simple - when I help someone else out sometime
when I am in the same position someone else will help me out.
In fact, we all would not be alive at all if our parents did not
feed and care for us when we were helpless infants.  Children will die
without food, moreover they will also die without love and affection.
Helping each other is quintessentially human.
             tim sevener  whuxl!orb