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From: david@fisher.UUCP (David Rubin)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Mr. Sykora isn't civil?  Mr. Reagan isn't honest?
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Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 16:39:59 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 16:39:59 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

This is all very well and good, but as I recall, the specific issue
that started this discussion was Social Security, which, I beg to
remind you, is NOT needs-based.  Those old folks who qualify for
welfare, I won't begrudge them it; I still see no reason to distribute
money based on age indiscriminitely.  Does charity require wanton
spending?

					David Rubin