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To: robertpaulsen
So words like duty, honor, character, responsibility, trust, sacrifice, have no place in your world?

Your presumptions baffle me. They seem to be the projections of a misanthrope which I seriously doubt you are. Why would someone think their maximum happiness would be achieved by totally disregarding others? Duty, honor, character, responsibility, trust, and sacrifice, I can assure you, are essential to my happiness. Why? Because they assist in the establishment of satisfying relationships with others. And I enjoy others. Even through disagreements like we may be having now -- sometimes especially through contentious debate.

381 posted on 05/02/2003 7:51:59 AM PDT by laredo44
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To: laredo44
Hey, you're the one that said that the pursuit of happiness should be wide open. I believe you when you say that duty, honor, character, responsibility, trust, and sacrifice assist in the establishment of satisfying relationships with others.

But your "wide open" statement tells me that if any of these gets in the way of your pursuit of happiness, they're discarded like yesterday's newspaper.

387 posted on 05/02/2003 8:08:33 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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