On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:31:15 -0600, "Pete C."
wrote:


Rich Grise wrote:

Pete C. wrote:
Ignoramus30509 wrote:

Why is it, that some people are more resilient to stress and keep
acting rationally, whereas some others, at the first trouble, break
down completely, start getting hysterical, blame others instead of
being constructive, etc?

Think about people you would take with you to a recon mission, and
those you would not.

Genetics. Contrary to the feel-good ideal of "all men created equal",
the reality is that is anything but the truth.

Oh, were _created_ equal. What you do with that from that point on is
up to you.

Yea, the Nobel laureat and the poor slob living in the group home were
created equal... Sorry, that "created equal" ideal is simply not true.

DBAD, Pete.

The best grok of this I have heard is from Michael Prell. He said, in
the _Underdogma_ book preview I read:

The Declaration also held that 'all men are created equal.' But it did
not promise all men that they would live their entire lives equally,
or achieve equal outcomes. Alexis de Tocqueville correctly called
American equality the "equality of conditions" writing that, because
our abilities are all different, "man cannot prevent their unequal
distribution." Among the unalienable rights spelled out in our
Declaration are the rights to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of
Happiness. If one man’s pursuit of happiness makes him wealthier than
another man, it is the duty of the American government to secure that
man’s wealth, not to disparage him for having earned it, or to
confiscate it or, as Barack Obama said, to‚ spread the wealth around
to underdogs.

--
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will
preserve for our children this, the last best hope
of man on Earth, or we will sentence them to take
the last step into a thousand years of darkness.?
-- Ronald Reagan