ashish_s_india opened this issue on May 31, 2005 ยท 88 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 31 May 2005 at 3:52 PM
I haven't seen anyone be particularly hard on this guy.
Pointing out a flaw in someone's reasoning isn't an attack.
But coming into a forum and taking a slap at the software that the forum is based around is an attack. And should be dealt with accordingly.
You'd be surprised how his attitude switched when someone was nice to him for a change.
Sorry, but a guy that's using the latest high-end 3D apps in school probably isn't hard up.
True story.
This is OT.......but your true story reminds me of another true story.......
Another true story from just a few years ago......
A wino was sleeping on a sidewalk outside of the entrance of a restaurant in downtown Chicago. The restaurant's owner called the police, complaining that the homeless man was bothering his customers.
The cops showed up -- and it turned out that the man on the sidewalk had died.
For 3-4 days after that incident, the local papers screamed about the unfairness of it all......and about how heartless that restaurant owner had been. If only someone had cared about him.......!!!!! That selfish restaurant owner should have offered him a free meal......!!!!!
Well......someone happened to look into the wino's background and personal history.
It turned out that the "street bum" had a personal net worth of over $4,000,000 in the bank. Money that he hadn't touched.
He was the son of an extremely wealthy southern California family. He had long-standing drug & drink abuse problems.
Several times, he had been admitted to very expensive treatment centers -- the type of places where rich folks go.
Each time, he had gotten dried out -- gone home for a couple of weeks -- and then hit the street again.
He CHOSE to live that way. It wasn't society's fault; it wasn't his family's fault; and it wasn't the restaurant owner's fault.
He died as he chose to live.
His choices. Not someone else's.