tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-519424503777525095.post8109288109460647541..comments2023-05-26T13:53:35.562+01:00Comments on energyarks blog: Comments on Rob Hopkins articleUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-519424503777525095.post-43453554994562994552009-07-12T08:47:21.785+01:002009-07-12T08:47:21.785+01:00Further clarification of the meaning of a "ha...Further clarification of the meaning of a "hard" rather than "soft" person. This first example would be a person who is <b><i>not</i></b> hard: A youth is upset that his girlfriend has dumped him and so he shoots twenty of his classmates before killing himself.<br />A second example, of someone who is hard, would be Captain Oates of the Antarctic expedition, who said "I am just going outside and may be some time". <br />Note that it is the soft person who kills, while the hard person kills no-one. And it is the soft person who is a burden on the group while the hard person is (potentially) an asset to the group.Robin P Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03395391589008969720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-519424503777525095.post-31566843970357778342009-07-10T11:11:34.917+01:002009-07-10T11:11:34.917+01:00Thanks for your thoughts ceridwen, but by "ha...Thanks for your thoughts ceridwen, but by "hard" people I most definitely did not mean those who do not care for others. That is a false generalisation there. I just meant those who have the capacities abovementioned such as to not have a breakdown if their friends all die, "to keep your head while all around are losing theirs" (if that's the right quote from the "If" poem). Sure, a future of only nasty peope would not be very appealing, but then surely all the more reason for one's nice self to remain in it. <br /><br />I've never said we're all doomed. My own family appears doomed but that's just life. There are millions of other people including myself out there, whom I see no reason to abandon. Living in the most interesting of times is a great privilege and I see no reason to pre-emptively jump out the window just because I might later be forced to death by starvation, hypothermia or violence. People survived a previous Dark Ages, and this one could well be less dark and take less ages to live through!Robin P Clarkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03395391589008969720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-519424503777525095.post-28129200135498910502009-07-10T06:30:41.002+01:002009-07-10T06:30:41.002+01:00...and the point of trying to survive - or trying ......and the point of trying to survive - or trying to do anything at all ever again would be precisely what? (if one really thought we dont stand a cat in hell's chance - to the extent of having mentally given up on one's own family even already). If I personally thought "thats it - we're all doomed - even to the extent of my own family" - then I wouldnt bother to hang around and even try to survive in a society full of "harder" people. Why would one want to even try to live in a society of "hard" people? A lot of the problems we have now stem from "hard" people - doing what they do best - ie being "hard" and not caring for others...<br /><br />- ceridwenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com