You are right. I should have used the word "questioning" instead of "arguing". Your line "As for the "Brother's Keeper" line being crap, I just sorta figured you lived by the book. " was directed to a great woman in the fight for liberty.
Howdy Amigo!
Thank you for at least acknowledging that I did question rather than argue.
As to the 2nd part, I wouldn't figure my reaction should need to be explained, but evidently, what seemed obvious to me was not so for you.
When somebody refers to a line taken directly from the book as crap.... well.... I can't help but find that just a bit offensive.
Maybe she doesn't live by the book. I have no idea what her spiritual leanings might be, so my assumption that she "lived by the book" could be entirely wrong.
You are saying with this line that she does not and that is not your call to make.
I don't believe that's correct. She said it herself, and I merely noted it. It was her call to make, and that was acknowledged by me in my response
"everyone must decide on their own". Or did you miss that, or merely interpret to fit your particular attitude?
You can take your expensive boots, hat, gun, Jeep (which is not a Jeep at all - a KJ -Kiddie Jeep-), checkbook and holier than thou attitude and...
What "holier than thou" attitude do you refer. I very seldom speak of spiritual values. I'm more of a "see your neighbor in need, do what you can to help out!" sort of guy. If that makes me "holier than thou", then perhaps I am guilty if it means that I am alone in my view that we help our neighbors here in Colorado.
Somebody has a seizure in the street, and I'm there to render aid.
Somebody has a heart attack and I jump in to do CPR.
Somebody is broken down beside the road, and I stop to see if they need anything.
Somebody needs a few bucks to get through a rough patch, I do what I can. I've done so many times.
A few days ago, I picked up a stranger nobody else would help when the temperature was well over 100 degrees.
Not only got him to the nearest bus stop, but went beyond that to drop him off at a location far closer to his home.
Why? Because I have an expensive hat? (still floors me that everybody understands the joke.... except you!)
I will, as I have always done, take a stand when I see a woman being abused, or a child being coaxed to get into a stranger's car.
Do I have any such obligation to do any of those things? No. I have no such obligation. But I do have a real strong sense of what is right.
That includes making a report to the local P.D. when an incident takes place like the OP described, so the next person they set to prey upon isn't harmed.
It is a little thing to take a few minutes to make report so P.D. can keep an eye on the area. It costs nothing, but a little time.
Many old timer Coloradoans do as I do. I learned it from living here. Lessons in being neighborly from my Colorado neighbors.
And lest you think I brag about things I do for my community, this is not boasting. I do things far more significant but see no need to tout.
Those whom I've helped know me, in ways you haven't concern to know.
Those who live because I interceded to prevent their death know me, as you obviously wouldn't care to hear.
And I do not believe I need to answer to you or anybody else on this mortal coil, regardless of how you judge another.
It also costs nothing to be nice to others.
But I don't believe you'd appreciate that.
Because all you offer is a whole slough of insult and flaming.
Why?
As for being a role model for anybody else, I'd really love to see your quote where I ever claimed to be anything of the kind?
I'll wager a Morgan silver dollar you won't find it anywhere on the forum.
Judge others, as you like, because by equal measure are you judged in turn!
No, not by me. I have more pressing matters at hand.
And it isn't my call anyhow.
Any more than your pronouncements on me are your call either.
Blessings,
M-Taliesin