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In a message dated 8/27/98, 8:26:36 AM, GarlooEnt@ao*.co* writes: <<many years ago i used to teach in a high school that had drug problems with the students. so it's not without experience in this area that i say that your analogy is quite floored. in that school system the powers that be felt that they should ignore the problem with regard to educating the students as to the ills of the drugs(i.e. show them the results of there actions by bringing them to rehb centers, or have past drug addicts discuss the problem with them). they took the hard line - they threatened them with punishment instead - this resulted in two deaths do to overdoses that i personally witnessed of course the powers that be blamed every one & everything else for the deaths.>> To say that the deaths from drugs resulted because someone was tough on them is in itself flawed (or in your spelling from above floored). Can you prove that they wouldn't of taken the drugs if they visited re-habs centers? I THINK NOT! This is more lets baby them bullshit. I mean tell me what the hell Australian liberal crap has to do with diving. As for Wrolf, to quote Alexis de Tocqueville. "... The citizen looks upon the fortune of the public as his own, and he labors for the good of the state, not merely from a sense of pride or duty, but from what I venture to term cupidity. It is unnecessary to study the institutions and the history of the Americans in order to know the truth of this remark, for their manners render it sufficiently evident. As the American participates in all that is done in his country, he thinks himself obliged to defend whatever may be censured in it; for it is not only his country that is then attacked, it is himself. The consequence is that his national pride resorts to a thousand artifices and descends to all the petty tricks of personal vanity." Basically this is what has happened to Wrolf he has desceded to petty tricks and personal vanity and we care not about his opinoins or ideals while divers continue to die. Ray LaTulippe -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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