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Re: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: Wakalukong
Date: Jun 8, 2008 19:45

On Jun 7, 3:16 pm, RichAsianKid hotmail.com> wrote:
> In Adam’s Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments:
>
> “Let us suppose that the great empire of China, with all its myriad of
> inhabitants, was suddenly swallowed up by an earthquake, and let us
> consider how a man of humanity in Europe, who had no sort of
> connection with that part of the world, would react upon receiving
> intelligence of this dreadful calamity.  He would, I imagine, first of
> all express very strongly his sorrow for the misfortune of that
> unhappy people, he would make many melancholy reflections upon the
> precariousness of human life, and the vanity of all the labors of man,
> which could thus be and annihilated in a moment.  He would, too,
> perhaps, if he was a man of speculation, enter into many reasonings
> concerning the effects which this disaster might produce upon the
> commerce of Europe, and the trade and business of the world in
> general.  And when all this fine philosophy was over, when all these
> humane sentiments had been once fairly expressed, he would pursue his
> business or his pleasure, take his repose or his diversion, with the
> same ease and tranquility as if no such accident had happened.  The
> most frivolous disaster which could befall himself would occasion a ...
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Re: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: Jim Walsh
Date: Jun 8, 2008 19:54

On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:45:11 +0800, Wakalukong wrote
(in article
i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):
>
> Er... you've recently discovered altruism; you can't backtrack now.
>
> Anyway, lots of overseas Chinese have donated in kind to the Burmese cyclone
> victims.

Well said.

--
Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
crossposts.)

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Re: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: bitter anko
Date: Jun 13, 2008 10:26

On 6月9日, 午前11:54, Jim Walsh gmNOail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:45:11 +0800, Wakalukong wrote
> (in article
> i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):
>
>
>
>> Er... you've recently discovered altruism; you can't backtrack now.
>
>> Anyway, lots of overseas Chinese have donated in kind to the Burmese cyclone
>> victims.
>
> Well said.
>
> --
> Love, Jim
> (I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
> crossposts.)
>
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Re: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: Gary Renzetti
Date: Jun 13, 2008 17:58

bitter anko wrote:
> On 6月9日, 午前11:54, Jim Walsh gmNOail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:45:11 +0800, Wakalukong wrote
>> (in article
>> i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):
>>
>>
>>
>>> Er... you've recently discovered altruism; you can't backtrack now.
>>> Anyway, lots of overseas Chinese have donated in kind to the Burmese cyclone
>>> victims.
>> Well said.
>>
>> --
>> Love, Jim
>> (I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
>> crossposts.)
>>
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RichAsianKid Reevaluates: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: RichAsianKid
Date: Jun 13, 2008 23:06

On Jun 13, 1:26 pm, bitter anko hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 6月9日, 午前11:54, Jim Walsh gmNOail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:45:11 +0800, Wakalukong wrote
>> (in article
>> i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):
>
>>> Er... you've recently discovered altruism; you can't backtrack now.
>
>>> Anyway, lots of overseas Chinese have donated in kind to the Burmese cyclone
>>> victims.
>
>> Well said.
>
>> --
>> Love, Jim
>> (I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
>> crossposts.) ...
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Re: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: Jim Walsh
Date: Jun 14, 2008 01:01

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:26:02 +0800, bitter anko wrote
(in article
i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):
> On 6$B7n(B9$BF|(B, $B8aA0(B11:54, Jim Walsh
> gmNOail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:45:11 +0800, Wakalukong wrote
>> (in article
>> i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):
>>
>>
>>
>>> Er... you've recently discovered altruism; you can't backtrack now.
>>
>>> Anyway, lots of overseas Chinese have donated in kind to the Burmese
>>> cyclone victims.
>>
>> Well said.
> Jim Walsh is the filthiest ....
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Re: RichAsianKid Reevaluates: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: Jim Walsh
Date: Jun 14, 2008 01:01

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:06:31 +0800, RichAsianKid wrote
(in article
<7ebe3040-55eb-42d2-9db2-682d0c189d44@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com>):
> I'm only saying that we're not quite exactly the same, that we're not all
> identical, and that even in the aggregate we're in some or many ways
> different.

If you were only saying that, no one would disagree with you.

But you are saying more.

You are saying that the human species is divided into races (but, oddly, you
have not been willing to tell us how many races you believe there are).

You are also saying that some races are smarter than others. (If you have
posted your IQ, with supporting evidence, I have not seen it.)

In other words, the above quote from your post is a further example of your
intellectual dishonesty.

--
Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
crossposts.)
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Re: RichAsianKid Reevaluates: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: Jim Walsh
Date: Jun 14, 2008 01:01

On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:06:31 +0800, RichAsianKid wrote
(in article
<7ebe3040-55eb-42d2-9db2-682d0c189d44@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com>):
>
> I think nationalism and racism and "differential loyalties" may merely be
> part of the our natural human condition based on all the evidence.
>
> Why try to construct a perpetual motion machine and fail when you can more
> easily construct an airplane and succeed?

When you come down, please try to explain the logical relationship that you
believe exists between these two statements. (BTW, the first statement is
obviously false. Nationalism can not have existed prior to nations, and
nations are a relatively new part of the human condition. Ditto racism.

Love, Jim
(I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
crossposts.)

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Re: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: bitter anko
Date: Jun 14, 2008 08:16

On 6月14日, 午前9:58, Gary Renzetti connection.com> wrote:
> bitter anko wrote:
>> On 6月9日, 午前11:54, Jim Walsh gmNOail.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 9 Jun 2008 10:45:11 +0800, Wakalukong wrote
>>> (in article
>>> i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>):
>
>>>> Er... you've recently discovered altruism; you can't backtrack now.
>>>> Anyway, lots of overseas Chinese have donated in kind to the Burmese cyclone
>>>> victims.
>>> Well said.
>
>>> --
>>> Love, Jim
>>> (I often delete parts of the previous post and I often remove excessive
>>> crossposts.)
>
>>> ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==----http://www.newsfeeds.comThe#1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups
>>> ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =----
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Re: RichAsianKid Reevaluates: Adam Smith, China Quake, and Human Nature         


Author: bitter anko
Date: Jun 14, 2008 08:19

On 6月14日, 午後3:06, RichAsianKid hotmail.com> wrote:
> Bitter Anko, first you realize that Jim Walsh is in Taiwan, right?

Yes, I know he is in Taiwan and is using Taiwanese women as his sex-
slaves.
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