From: ghost_of_morphy@killfile.com   
      
   On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:34:13 -0700, "rl"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"Morphy's ghost"  wrote in message   
   >news:3fb8f736.122803677@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...   
   >> On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 06:50:05 -0700, "rl"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> >   
   >> >If you knew what you were doing was illegal.  If you knew that you might   
   >get   
   >> >caught.  If you knew this would lead to a crimm record.  If you knew that   
   >a   
   >> >crimm record was going to be a real handicap when it came to securing   
   >> >legitimate employment.....   
   >> >AND YOU WENT OUT AND DID THE DEED ANYWAY!   
   >> >   
   >> >Please explain for me *exactly* how and why your current dilemma is the   
   >> >employers problem/fault and not yours?   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> I've always thought that expecting a criminal to foresee all of the   
   >> consequences of his actions was expecting too much.  It makes us the   
   >> equivalent of the mother of a recently divorced man telling him, "See,   
   >> I told you this would happen when you first started dating her."  It's   
   >> just not constructive.   
   >   
   >Whoa!!!!   
   >   
   >It's not constructive for us to expect people to at least have some idea of   
   >the consequences for their actions?  Have you really thought that statement   
   >out???!!!   
   >   
   >That is one of the definitions of insanity!   
   >   
   >The inability to understand that what we do may have far reaching and   
   >unintended consequences to ourselves and others.   
   >   
   >I think you ought to give this one a little more time in the pipe, Morphy.   
   >   
   >   
      
   I've thought it through.  In an ideal world, we would know all of the   
   consequences of our actions and rationally and analytically choose   
   between alternatives so that we would never make a mistake.  This is   
   not an ideal world; everybody makes mistakes.  While we certainly   
   should expect that people will do their best to make the right   
   choices, once they've fucked up,  we should offer them something a   
   little more constructive than saying "I told you so."   
      
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