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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:04 pm
Subject: Re: [BP] None of the Alove
To: [log in to unmask]

> In a message dated 7/26/2007 1:12:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> In my experience coercion rarely creates inspiration or
> motivation. Just
> going through the motions to fulfill an obligation, like me
> taking out the trash
> at home. 
> I have always agreed with that.  Until it occurred to me
> that - to take your
> illustration - when I am obliged to take out the trash, I
> consider more
> seriously the trash container, the distance of travel, the
> packaging, the contents,
> and all the other things that would (or would not) benefit me.
>
> If you want to count you have to show up. Making folks
> vote...Saddam got 100%
> of the vote in the 1996 Iraqi election. Nice guy, miss him a
> lot...
> Not exactly the same comparison, eh?   Coerced vote
> vs. coerced choice.  It's
> one thing to be required to have sex. It's another to be
> required to have sex
> with a specific mammal.  This, of course, has happened to
> all of us, so it's
> a very good example.
>  
> Still I am against coercion.  But, at any event,
>  
> Don't Blame Me I Voted for Adlai
>  
>
>
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"It's one thing to be required to have sex..." 

Just curious...where is the queue for this?  

AU H2O... too bad I was not born until 1968

BR  


Brian Scott Robinson, MHP
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Savannah College of Art and Design
School of Building Arts
Historic Preservation Department
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