Poemranker [Replying] Sun May 19 06:57:29 PDT 2024

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Bri's Room (not done) (Free verse) by Sunshine Conkey

A little girl named Bri had an awful lot of stuff she saved and saved it but it wasn't enough. She put it in a closet and stacked it on the floor But even when her room was filled She wanted more and more. One day while playing She wanted her special pen to draw her favorite doll. But after looking everywhere, she couldn't find them at all.

LilMsLadyPoet

15-Dec-05/8:56 PM

Again, I would refer you to Ayn Rand...she says it as eloquently as I could vere suppose to. I do not think it benefits anyone to pay off thugs. I do not believe in giving in to extortion and corruption, for to do so only encourages more. i do not believe in violence unless acted violently upon. In order to TAKE what they want they would have to take up arms. In that case, it is clearly wrong. Why give them sanction and a (false?) sense of power by GIVING it to them? Will it stop them from coming back to take more? No. They will be back, asking for more. (ie: Korea, etc) I say my future should not be in the hands of anyone but me. I say that to be subject to anyone who holds a gun to your head is against man's best interest. I say if they want it, then come and TAKE it, if they dare, and let them suffer the consequences if they choose that route.
America, and myself, personally, should never pay extortionists and thugs who seek to take what does not belong to them. Your statement about handouts is based on the assumption that a handout would prevent violence. Such an assumption is wrong. Eventually, if you give and give, you run out of what they want, or you refuse out of necessity, or they come to take all you have and are...then what? Violence and defending yourself would be necessary. Paying off someone to leave you unmolested never works...thugs always come back for more. Handouts only appease for a short while. Paying extortionists prevent nothing; it only prolongs the inevitable. You use the term 'worthless guy'; I ask, Why would you want to sustain and support someone who is worthless and a thug?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for today, and he shows up to be fed again tomorrow, resenting you because he needs you.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime, and he goes away your friend.
"Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas."

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