Subject: Re: AFSC - Melissa's Mistakes?
Name: Wolfgang J. Weiss
Date Posted: Oct 22, 07 - 11:00 AM
zybarwulf@comcast.net
Message: The road to truth and understanding begins with a journey inward, a self-examination.
The only "mistake" you made is thinking your actions and reactions are or were mistakes.
Otherwise, you wrote up a really nice, if not a bit self-serving, confessional.
If you can lose the losers and liars, the con-men and cheats that seem to be infesting practically every aspect of the taxicab industry, you may yet accomplish your goals and ambitions.
Also, if you would just stop parroting some of these people's BS, think things through and act on your own volition and creative decisions, the drivers will follow you, no matter where you lead them.
And, please, no more lame excuses like "something came up" or "I was busy." If you're going to be at the front to lead, then do so, be their, jump on every email as if it meant life or death, because it does. Don't ever let up, keep the pressure (on the City) on high.
We are all depending on you, Ms. Callahan, to succeed where most have failed.
Peace, Love, and Good Luck,
Wolf
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Replying to:
Subject: WHATEVER THE STRONGEST DECIDE
Name: wjw
Date Posted: Jun 3, 08 - 9:53 AM
Message: Subject: WHATEVER THE STRONGEST DECIDE & Four Unanswered Questions
Name: wjw
Date Posted: Jun 2, 08 - 11:54 AM
Message: As you may know, the most famous of Plato's dialogues is an immense dialogue called "The Republic."
The question which opens this immense dialogue is: WHAT IS JUSTICE?
Several inadequate definitions are put forward, but the most emphatically presented definition is given by a young brain-child named Thrasymachus.
He defines justice as WHATEVER THE STRONGEST DECIDE IT IS, and that the strong decide that WHATEVER IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST is JUST.
Socrates dismisses this argument by proving that THE STRONG RARELY FIGURE OUT WHAT IS IN THEIR BEST INTEREST, and this can't be JUST since JUSTICE is a good thing.
Socrates then starts the question all over again. If one could decide what a JUST STATE is like, one could use that as an analogy for a just person.
Plato then embarks on a long exposition about how a state might embody the FOUR GREAT VIRTUES: Courage, Wisdom, Temperance, and Justice.
In that regard, I ask these questions:
1.) Virtue of Justice: HOW DO ONE DOLLAR, TRIPLED FINES AND MORE POLICE POWER SERVE “JUSTICE?”
2.) Virtue of Temperance: DOES ONE DOLLAR’S WORTH OF “TEMPERANCE” ELIMINATE OR LESSEN EXTREMES TO ENSURE NORMALITY?
3.) Virtue of Courage: HOW IS THERE “COURAGE” IN ACCEPTING THE ONE DOLLAR CRUMB?
4.) Virtue of Wisdom: WHERE IS THERE “WISDOM” IN ONE DOLLAR IN TODAY’S economic CONDITIONS?
