From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 10:46:48 MDT
Lee Corbin asked:
> So (just to pursue a fancy, here) you generally speaking
> don't consider yourself to be the same person that you
> were last week? Wow ;-) it must really be easy to get
> out of promises, "*I* never said that! The previous gts
> said that!" ;-)
Strictly speaking, yes, I am not the same person I was last week.
With regard to promises, people would never break them if what I am
saying were not true. Rightly or wrongly, when a person willfully breaks
a promise it is because he has "changed his mind," i.e., his personality
has changed such that he is now a different person with a different set
of priorities.
Lest you think this should be interpreted as a license to disregard
one's integrity, keep in mind that the breaking of a promise is not in
itself immoral or evil. Such things must be considered in context.
(T'would have been nice had Osama's followers decided to break their
promise to destroy the WTC, for example.)
-gts
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