Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/04/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Pablo Kolodny wrote: > kididdoc@cox.net wrote: > >> my point in part, was only to consider that the life expectancy of >> children living on the street, >> may be actually much longer than some ill children who have homes... > > yes Steve, > > I'm sure that what you're saying is real though still illness seems to > remain as such a thing only left to randomness or more specifically to > genetics randomness yes...very rarely genetics, just like poverty... > - I'm sure more variables do take place here - or you better tell > while poverty is not, it's more of policy driven by governments. Or by > wealth or corps or... >> >>> And respect is something that I'd say pops up with every of your >>> photographs, indeed. >>> >>> Though compassion is a feeling I'm not very fond of >> >> tell me why that is.... > > if compassion, by its definition, is the sympathy for the suffering of > others... I wouldn't like to be counted in but if it's about the > desire of > giving help to others I would. > > Compassion, in my un/humble opinion, has more to do with a passive > mode in > which one can dive in and get just paralyzed though the desire of > help is an > active mode by which one gets involved, making one to work on that. > Like Tina does, right or wrong. Though after this recent messages > exchange > I'm more inclined to think she's doing right. seems like compassion is the primary and key consideration, it all (can) starts there... whether one uses that to take the jump and do something about it, is the next question, Steve > > > hasta luego > > Pablo > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information