Mom and dad were heroes

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For my part,
I choose not to be a hero for the benefit of strangers.

I 'd not run into any burning buildings to save strangers;

Quite okay, not everyone is so inclined,
and I wouldn't have thought you so inclined.

I believe that the inexorable logic
of life 's circumstances leads to serving one 's own euphoric contentment.

My filosofy and my psychology
have always been based upon hedonistic SELFISHNESS,
which I favorably recommend to everyone.

I think david also believes in balance,
in that a good firearm is properly balanced so you don't get a cramp from waving it around.

Also, having one on the left side of the belt balances the one on the right...

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I believe that the inexorable logic
of life 's circumstances leads to serving one 's own euphoric contentment.

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I personally wouldn't describe the end game as 'euphoric' contentment,
which sounds a bit like 'pleasurable' contentment...
the problem with both pleasure and euphoria being that that are both short lived (in my view).

Do that to me ONE MORE TIME;
once is NEVER enuf

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...described as 'happy/joyous contentment',
and we'd agree....although that may just be semantics.

OK; we 'll do that after the euphoric contentment.

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... people achieve this in different ways, according to their own personality and character.

Yeah.

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My filosofy and my psychology
have always been based upon hedonistic SELFISHNESS,
which I favorably recommend to everyone.

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Btw, while I have no issue with you being this way -
this is probably on of the major reasons we disagree on the gun debate -
we come from different perspectives in life

(as I've previously mentioned, I believe in balance)

From that, I dissent.
I choose to conserve the right way.

If u meet an applicant for a job as your accountant,
will u reject a man who calculates it all correctly,
in favor of a candidate who balances equal amounts of accuracy and error ?

If u choose to engage the services of a surgeon,
will u hire one who proudly asserts that while his right hand is perfectly sterile,
his left hand is foul n dirty ?

If u serve on a jury
with multiple defendants in a criminal prosecution,
will u vote to convict HALF of the innocent men ?

If u were an astronaut going to Mars,
wud u select a spaceship that will get u there in perfect safety,
but will crash and burn, on the way back ( for balance ) ?

Lemme know.

David

Quotation from "The Birth and Death of Meaning" by Ernest Becker.

"Anthony Quinn in his great role in "Requiem for a Heavyweight" earned his inner sense of self-value by constantly reminding himself and others that he was "fifth-ranking contender for the heavyweight crown". This made him really somebody, gave him continual nourishment, allowed him to hold his head high in the shabbiest circumstances. Academic intellectuals have their own fine gradations of worth: a six-hour teaching load, with no under-graduate teaching, in an ivy-league school; a three hour teaching load, with only one undergraduate course, in an almost ivy-league school. How these balance in the scale of self-worth can cause agonizing life decisions."

"Anthony Quinn in his great role in "Requiem for a Heavyweight" earned his inner sense of self-value by constantly reminding himself and others that he was "fifth-ranking contender for the heavyweight crown". This made him really somebody, gave him continual nourishment, allowed him to hold his head high in the shabbiest circumstances.

Academic intellectuals have their own fine gradations of worth: a six-hour teaching load, with no under-graduate teaching, in an ivy-league school; a three hour teaching load, with only one undergraduate course, in an almost ivy-league school.

How these balance in the scale of self-worth can cause agonizing life decisions."

Academic intellectuals have their own fine gradations of worth: a six-hour teaching load, with no under-graduate teaching, in an ivy-league school; a three hour teaching load, with only one undergraduate course, in an almost ivy-league school.

How these balance in the scale of self-worth can cause agonizing life decisions."