[MD] The American Ruling Class

[plattholden at gmail.com]

On 15 Dec 2009 at 18:53, Arlo Bensinger wrote:

> [Platt]
> Speaking of "egoistic selfish desires," Mother Theresa was a shining 
> example. What she did filled her heart with joy...
> 
> [Arlo]
> One of the more devastating fictions trumpeted by the right.
> 
> How do you know her heart was not filled with sorrow seeing so many 
> suffer? Maybe she hated that her life had to spent caring for others 
> rather than lounging on a beach drinking mai tais? Maybe her constant 
> contact with the world's castoffs led her to secretly be consumed by 
> the worst of contempt for humanity?
> 
> Aside from this, she did not act out of "egoistic selfish desire", 
> she acted not in her own interests, but she set aside her own wants 
> and needs in order to help others.
> 
> By your misguided notion, nothing we do can ever be anything but 
> egoistic. If I run into a burning house to save a baby, it is because 
> such an act makes me feel good. There can never be real "sacrifice", 
> since sacrifice is always done to serve the egoism of the sacrificer. 
> Hell, I bet you'd tell Christians that Jesus did not sacrifice 
> himself, he acted with egoistic selfish desire, because playing a 
> martyr filled his heart with joy. Selfish prick. What a strange and 
> warped world you inhabit. I am happy not to be a part of that.

You're the warped one, my friend, unable to face reality. But I'm not 
surprised you enjoy being miserable.