"Heterosexual Marriage"!

[elena]

----- Original Mess -----
From: Christopher Susi <chris at susi.net
> we need oxygen, we save them from  starvation.
>.......
> My argument can be made on both a macro-level ... all the way down to a
micro-level ... When there is no inherent
> benefit, why should they be saved? ... I could
> even make a case (probably a pretty strong one) that if they live and grow
> strong that they may become a significant threat.
>
Snipped cos what's left seemed, to me at least, precisely the point
that tickled me to reply. It's not just that I don't like bullies (that's
personal, hence ignorable and surely not worth webcasting on lbo). Rather, I
get b/itchy about  a global bully (like the US currently) flexing muscles on
each and every occasion (but, I guess, that's my own problem). Maybe,
because I happen to live in interesting times in an interesting country ,
which, for the last 1000 years, seems to have been strategically
prostituting as *'s colony (colony in a Saidian sense for kelley, yoshie
etc) by necessity. That's not the point, though.
I'd invert/edit your
question, and wait for your answer:
> When there is no inherent
> benefit, (why) should they be saved?
as
* Why not just let them be starved, if there is no inherent benefit?
>From a bully's point of view, this should make perfect sense: is that what
you are advocating?

Elena
P.S.
>
> (It is bad manners, however, to use this device to show that another
writer
> is a lousy speller or otherwise unlettered.)
>
Yep, I was intentionally trying to be as offenisve (sic!) as possible. Sorry
ab that - honest. A bad thing, too: the only excuse I can offer is: imagine
having to work on a Sunday without the required bowl of Java-coffee to boot
you...
But! I usually get away with that (i.e. your sic!s, cos I'm a
furriner......:o)
P.P.S. a case of cross-cultural skidding:
>
> Also, I have never read "the Tempest" (sic!).  You know you should never
> assume, because you know where that gets you.  However, if you recommend
it,
> I will put it on my reading list.
>
explanation: Shakespeare was part of both Bulgarian high-school/ Russian
high-school curriculum in (respectively) late '70's - early '80's. Was it
wrong to deduce that he was excluded from US high-school requirements?
Though, The Tempest would be a brain-disturber, so, maybe, after all, it was
de-mock-rat-ically censured...