Just an opinion

DOMM@delphi.com
Sun, 22 Sep 1996 15:54:29 -0500 (EST)

I think people get into trouble when they take extream positions as
"the" path to take. These are really only contemporarily defined "book-ends",
which show the outer-most boundries of whatever we are examining.

These boundries are ever changing as people-technology-history ect.. wiggle
through time. Most things stablize somewhere between being too much or too
little. This is today however, and when the boundries change, there will be
more to consider. Boundries are "user" defined "words" only.

Have you ever seen a "white" person? How about a "black" person?
Of course not...we are all shades of pink-tan-brown or whatever.
Unfortunately, lables are used for identification and tend to stick around.
Its like me saying....think of any color except red. Whats the first color
you thought of?

Then there is a conviction response where we all try to protect our situation
investment of time, energy, money, beliefs..etc...doesn't really matter how we
got there. People kill each other saying things like "my" God is better than
"your" God. These are user defined positions and not collective "common"
concerns based on a total evaluation. If all religions were based on common
sense view of the world...we'd be better off.

This list is somewhat of a common sense thing when its working right.
I applaud it and all concerned. Now that one can "actually" search the
archives, I won't get PO'd when I read someone being told to go there
for an answer to a common question. Lets not be hippocrates though.
I *have* read messages from people who complain about frivolous
messages who then go right on to post theirs.

"Don't follow leaders...watch your parking meters" ...Bob Dylan

---Dom