Greed, need are funny words
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Editor,
I’ve always found it curious that people usually use the word “greed” when they’re talking about other peoples’ money. It escapes me how a person or a group of people can sit planning ways to take from another, and when that person objects, the one who’s being targeted is found to be lacking and labeled any number of antisocial slurs. This brings to mind a quote by my favorite author, “Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.”
The word “need” is often used as reason to take from or take more from somebody else. The donation cups are clanging bars in the White House, and I find myself hearing another favorite quote: “Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).”
I realize that my political views are counter to being a “good little citizen,” and for that, I can only thank my capacity to think. I make no apologies for believing in man’s right to seek and achieve his own happiness. I do, however, find myself apologizing often for the many hurdles he must jump to achieve it.
Autumn Parmenter
Polson
