On 8 Dec 2004, at 21:29, K. Weston wrote:
they could have helped people less fortunate than themselves... it would be interesting to know what they were thinking
i've always thought that, yes, they could have given it to charity, could have helped less fortunate people, but if you had a million quid, would you really give it away to charity? people are all very high minded and moralistic about it when it's hypothetical and it's not their money, but if they actually had a million quid, they'd end up spending most of it on mostly unimportant thing for themselves, and only giving part of it away to ease their guilty consience. it's a far more selfless and noble act to set fire to it all. i seem to remember there being a quote from jimmy roughly along those lines. something about how they would have just spent it on something pointless, so better to do nothing with it. . -- --- Fix me now, I wish you would bring me back to life -- --------------------------------------------------- -- -- illitrate Publicashions --- - jai@illitrate.co.uk - http://www.illitrate.co.uk/ - --- ------------------------------------------------- ---