Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!alice!rabbit!mam From: mam@rabbit.UUCP Newsgroups: net.suicide Subject: re: Sailors in ships Message-ID: <1754@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Aug-83 19:44:27 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.1754 Posted: Wed Aug 3 19:44:27 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Aug-83 01:31:59 EDT Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill Lines: 16 I don't whether or not sailors not learning to swim is unChristian. Christ does encourage us not to give up hope, but at the same time, his edicts should be mixed with common sense. I don't think that it is unChrist- ian not to learn to swim if you are a fisherman on the Georges Bank. If you fall into the water there, you will not survive the experience, so it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference whether or not you can swim. On the other hand, if you are stationed in Florida, it would be silly not to be able to swim. So I guess it depends on the circumstances. Don't give up the ship! Meredith Morris rabbit!mam