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Freewheel · 03-02-08, 07:43 PM

We have the opportunity to put our opinions here and share them with everyone.

I think that's something for which we can all be very thankful.

I am not familiar with the particulars of the incident that brought this family their current situation, but based on the Standard Operating Procedures that I was trained to, together with my experience on similar ground, I'm comfortable with my post, twee though it was.

I have to say this also. I was aware at the time I posted it that other wouldn't agree and it would probably get me flamed, but what's the point of having your own opinion if you didn't express it for fear people wouldn't like it?

A lot of people didn't like Abraham Lincoln's opinion on slavery, but wouldn't you agree that it's been a good thing? A lot of people thought Winston Churchill's 1940 opinion that fight was better than flight was ridiculous, but wouldn't quite a few Brits agree that it was fighting then that gave the US a base for europe and didn't that work out rather well?

I rather doubt I'll be seen as a visionary for my post, but I'm OK with that. I know that the world isn't fair, I know that compassion is not an ideal either, but a normal emotion. Once the incident took place, compassion took this family to Australia and if they choose to take legal action, well that's not fair on those who showed them compassion, but if the law allows it, that's just how it is. If life was an ideal the good wouldn't die young, the useless and lazy wouldn't get redundancy packages and I could afford to call Fran and say "One of each thanks". I know I have to deal with situations as they arise, rather than wallow in outrage and pity. Can all of us do that?

03-02-08, 07:43 PM	#55 (permalink)
Freewheel Freewheel Rookie Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 83 Rep Power: 2	Re: Biting the hand that feeds you/shot you. We have the opportunity to put our opinions here and share them with everyone. I think that's something for which we can all be very thankful. I am not familiar with the particulars of the incident that brought this family their current situation, but based on the Standard Operating Procedures that I was trained to, together with my experience on similar ground, I'm comfortable with my post, twee though it was. I have to say this also. I was aware at the time I posted it that other wouldn't agree and it would probably get me flamed, but what's the point of having your own opinion if you didn't express it for fear people wouldn't like it? A lot of people didn't like Abraham Lincoln's opinion on slavery, but wouldn't you agree that it's been a good thing? A lot of people thought Winston Churchill's 1940 opinion that fight was better than flight was ridiculous, but wouldn't quite a few Brits agree that it was fighting then that gave the US a base for europe and didn't that work out rather well? I rather doubt I'll be seen as a visionary for my post, but I'm OK with that. I know that the world isn't fair, I know that compassion is not an ideal either, but a normal emotion. Once the incident took place, compassion took this family to Australia and if they choose to take legal action, well that's not fair on those who showed them compassion, but if the law allows it, that's just how it is. If life was an ideal the good wouldn't die young, the useless and lazy wouldn't get redundancy packages and I could afford to call Fran and say "One of each thanks". I know I have to deal with situations as they arise, rather than wallow in outrage and pity. Can all of us do that?