"What I want to say is this: - If you logically try to persuade a person that there is no absolute reason for shedding tears, the person in question will cease weeping. That's self evident. Why, I should like to know, should such a person continue doing so?"

"If such were the usual course of things, life would be a very easy matter," replied Raskolnikoff.

- Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky

Monday, April 28, 2008

The flip side, of course...

... is that we're all entitled. We all are worthy and we all deserve the best. But if you look at it from that angle the question becomes: given that we all can't have what we want (constraints, scarcity, unreciprocated desire, etc.), who gets what and why?
Okay. I'm stopping now.
Posted by Duder at 9:11 AM

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