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Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
Sat May 5, 2012, 01:34 PM May 2012

I didn't say this but I wish I had..

Post #6

http://www.balloon-juice.com/2012/05/05/tears-of-a-banker/#comments

Jewish Steel Says:

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the quantity of their capital, but by the content of their character.

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Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
2. Utopia means nowhere.
Sat May 5, 2012, 01:52 PM
May 2012

You don't think people should be judged by their character?

How about Ted Bundy, was it OK to judge him by his character?

 

dkf

(37,305 posts)
4. A court of law doesn't judge a person's character, but their actions.
Sat May 5, 2012, 02:29 PM
May 2012

You can't sentence a person for being a creep, or John Edwards would be given life in prison.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
3. “A society is only a democracy when no-one is so rich they can buy someone,
Sat May 5, 2012, 01:53 PM
May 2012
“A society is only a democracy when no-one is so rich they can buy someone, an no-one so poor that they need sell themselves.” Jean Jacque Rousseau
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