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The topic is the "Pope says HP is bad for children". By all means mention if you like the books but at some point it might be useful to relate it to the topic. which is not the "Pope says HP is bad for adults"

We Americans (myself included) too often put ourselves at the center of EVERYTHING. We like it so it must be okay for everyone, right. Well ummm...NO We never look past the end of our own noses to see the effect of something on someone else. Does this harm others? I don't like smoking so I want to make smoking difficult for everyone (even in their own homes) I don't like SUV's so no one can have one. I don't want to be bothered by a brat so kill the little bugger and while we are at it grandma is getting to be a pain as well, her house is paid for and I want to go to Fiji for vacation this year so I hope you don't mind if I stand on her feeding tube. Come to think of it that will be an inconvenience so I'll just have the hospice do it. We look down on Nazi Germany and yet this country has killed as many people. We even have more people involved in the killing, relatively few Germans were involved in their crimes yet we think we are the best d@## country in the whole wide world. We assume we are smugly superior to the Slave holding South yet the South never systemically murdered millions. I could go on and on but I am feeling better now. :-)

I thank you for affording me the chance to get that off my chest. Nothing personal towards you, you just provided a small example of a problem too many of us (myself included) are guilty. Self absorption. I just want to point out the need to look beyond ourselves and think of others and the effect we are having when our pleasures take center stage and override everything. Chuck the TV, chuck the porn, chuck the Viagra, chuck birth control pills and go feed the homeless or plant flowers, read a serious book anything other than just the self gratification that overwhelms us every day.