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Seau suffered from disease caused by hits
Yes. Very well and simply put. While too many "thoughtful" people sit on their asses and do nothing.— January 14, 2013 7:44 p.m.
Jefferson and the bar
I grew up in a community where people settled their own affairs, and resorting to the law would be an embarrassment to any man. People were very nice to each other because they cared more about what they, themselves thought of them first, what others thought of them second, and where the feedback loop of consequences was swift, including ostracization, a punch in the nose, getting your ass kicked, and so forth. Every man had at least one gun, but nobody ever used one. I'm sorry if you missed growing up in such a community. I know that you have the capacity for imagining such a society, where cooperation beats competition because it works far better and one valued oneself enough to do what was right even if it hurt. "Justice delayed is justice denied." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_delayed_is_j… PS: For example, I scraped the plastic bumper of a car in a parking lot recently and left a note with my phone number. It cost me plenty, but that was better than dishonoring myself. In the community in which I grew up, such minor incidents were often settled by buying the other guy a drink, and most often the "offended" party would do the buying, and would drive off happily in a car with a minor scratch instead of requiring the replacement of the scratched part to the tune of about a thousand dollars. There was a strong sense of proportion--another social more that was not written into law because it didn't need to be. The social sense at the center of this community was to do things FOR others rather than TO others.— January 13, 2013 10:08 p.m.
ResMed: Please refuse to play the subsidy game
Rome wasn't burned in a day, but the fuse was lit centuries before. When the concept of property took hold.— January 13, 2013 9:36 p.m.
Seau suffered from disease caused by hits
What we have here is sympathetic magic on steroids, as it were, a fantasy to compensate for inadequacy. "Fan" is short for "fanatic."— January 13, 2013 9:33 p.m.
UCAN board meeting gets testy
It seems that, since social mores don't seem to be working, that a law may (lamentably) be required.— January 13, 2013 8:45 p.m.
UCAN board meeting gets testy
Closed door meetings are not transparency.— January 12, 2013 5:55 p.m.
Seau suffered from disease caused by hits
Spectator sports are for sissies who just want to watch. Any known act that causes death is murder, regardless of how long it takes for the victim to stop breathing terminally.— January 12, 2013 5:53 p.m.
ResMed: Please refuse to play the subsidy game
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. You don't take percentages to the bank, you take MONEY to the bank.— January 12, 2013 5:48 p.m.
Does new UCAN board want reform?
A San Diegan. A citizen of the world. An exceptional individual devoid of egocentrism who didn't give a damn about credit, fame, publicity, and all the puffery that claims that "You are what your publicity says you are." The late curator of marine mammals at the Natural History Museum. If you ever took a whale-watching trip with the SDNHM before he died (stepping onto the whale-watching boat, with his boots on), you knew him.— January 12, 2013 10:48 a.m.
Jefferson and the bar
Don, On law and social mores. Some Polynesian societies, for example, had no word for "steal." Social (peer) pressure was enough to keep all but the truly sick (brain abnormalities) from doing damage to the social structure, when, in those rare cases, the community might decide (as "eskimos" are reported to have done) took the hopeless case for a one-way trip into the wilderness. In societies (cooperation, mentally oriented toward subsistence and what one can do FOR others rather than what one could do TO others), laws are not needed, but this is not to say that knowing right from wrong does not exist. The distinction is CRUCIAL! I realize that this concept is difficult to understand--that is because most people have known only law, and have not experienced social mores in action enough to recognize the difference. You are guided by your own sense of right and wrong--to the point that you recognize more acutely than most, that laws are anti-social. You're just not aware of it, because it takes a different way of looking at reality to understand it (which you do, without even thinking about it). After all, you are in the middle of a subject that is all about controlling others. And, you don't like it a bit. GOOD FOR YOU!— January 12, 2013 10:39 a.m.