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Originally posted by highlander
I completely agree with you Steve that people are very passive in their lives today... there is no disagreement there; I have seen that in society for a long, long time, but I realize that I can't make other people take active roles in their own lives, so I keep my mouth shut about it. I see the irony in this situation; you are bitching (but not doing anything about) about people that bitch but don't take any action... how does this obvious irony escape you? As I said before, don't worry about other people and how they run their lives. And you think I don't care, but hell, I care enough to respond to this thread twice now...

And how exactly should I force people to take charge? This is a philosophical thought, not a concrete one. The irony escapes me because it isn't there. All I can do is recognize these inadequacies and ask questions. I can't pick someone up off of the couch and force them to vote or get involved or do something...anything. I remember my Comp II class a few years ago. My teacher had service learning as part of the curriculum. Each of us were to volunteer at a certain amount of projects to round out the class. Sure, you could just not go, but you wouldn't get an A. You wouldn't believe the number of people who bitched and moaned about doing a few hours of volunteer work. But why? I've often volunteered with no better reason than it's just something to do that happens to benefit someone else. If you don't ask questions you'll never have any answers. It's not worrying about how someone else runs their own life...it's about how eventually their inability to run their lives will someday effect you.

And Ren...I'm glad you agree...but you and I obviously have a vastly different viewpoint of what this "war" is accomplishing and whether or not a sacrificed life is worth it. Then again...that's a different matter altogether.