At 08:34 AM 3/2/2004 -0800, Kirby Stevens wrote: >When you read episodes like this one has to reflect upon the "Survival of >the fittest" theory and leave him with the underlying assumption that the >world would be much better if dumb people weren't in the gene pool. > >This is a perfect example of monkey see, monkey do. > >Fortunately this didn't escalate, the group was very, very lucky nothing >worse happened. Actually this is not a perfect example of monkey see, monkey do. If it was my friend would have followed the rest of the monkeys and taken the safe route. This was a case of monkey see - monkey don't do. I feel compelled to defend my friend. He is not dumb. He was victimized by his own poor judgement, but as Nietzche said,..."what does not kill you makes you stronger." In my friends case he has clearly demonstrated this by working on improving his skills. For him, as for me and many others, the hardest part will be to continue developing the skills that lead to wisdom - or good seamanship skills. gordin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Mar 02 2004 - 10:16:00 PST
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