Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!bmcg!bprice From: bprice@bmcg.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Moral Arithmetic and AA Message-ID: <389@bmcg.UUCP> Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 12:41:52 EDT Article-I.D.: bmcg.389 Posted: Tue Jun 21 12:41:52 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jun-83 18:23:48 EDT References: eagle.999 Lines: 21 If I were your hypothetical Newark kid, I would feel very bent out of shape at those of you who have lied to me for so long. It is those who have convinced the kids--black, white, green, whatever--that they have no future who bear the resonsibility for the problems that AAP is exacerbating. Those of you who deny each individual's responsibility for his own life are substituting irresponsibility and dependency for dignity and happiness. The evil of AAP lies more in the harm it does to its putative beneficiaries than any of the multitude of other damage it works on society as a whole and on the individuals it discriminates against. AAP, like the rest of the FDR- taught vote-buying apparatus the "liberals" have saddled us with, has the primary purpose of enhancing the power of its administrators at the expense of society and of the individuals comprising that society. If you care about your hypothetical Newark kid--or any real people, whether similarly situated or not--you would learn a lot by reading and digesting George Gilder' book "Invisible Man." If you care, you'll learn just how much devastation is visited upon the poor by the welfare system. If you care, you'll learn to think about individuals, rather than "the peepul" that Tipsy-O'neil types babble about. If you care, you'll take some personal responsibility for making things better, rather than supporting government coercion and rationalizing away the knowledge that, by doing so, you are helping noone and hurting all (even the AAP and welfare administrators).