Re: prudence vs. fortitude (was Re: Why "progressive" tax schemes are evil)

From: Jeff Bone (jbone@jump.net)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 22:54:44 PDT


The only question being, of course, "how far downe is the tolerable smacketh
downage?"

My gut: player loses 70k, takes out 10 cow-orkers last year: what a freakin'
pussy! Anyone with any cojones at all can emotionally handle at least 20-30x
that in a single day... those with *fortitude* (ahem, Tom, Kragen) can do
100% and bounce back. In fact, there are experimentalists in this field now,
we only wait for their reports... :-)

jb

> Strata Rose Chalup wrote:
>
> > Pancho! My saddle!!
> >
> > kragen@pobox.com wrote:
> > >It's about *resisting* the temptation to inaction, depression, and
> > >despair. It's about being being smacked down again and again and
> > >getting up every time. It's about standing up *knowing* you're gonna
> > >get smacked down, standing up just because it's the right thing to do,
> > >because standing up is what someone else needs to do, or because if
> > >you don't stand up now, you won't stand up again.
> >
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