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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

Yes, but part of the support system we're discussing is directly working to help people, and since folks like ourselves were not in anyway a part of his own support system, any judgments we pass, good or bad, are just needless meddling gossip.

I disagree.

Originally Posted by suchfriendsaredangerous

As to the wealthy? Its gossip too. I was just discussing with !@#$%!'s point, and your agreement, that wealth or power might bridge the gap between freedom and the human need for belonging to others which by definition limits personal freedom and empowers other people. Wealth or power alone can't do this, and if anything might hinder such, rather individual readjustment and applied effort to build and sustain supportive relationships will suffice. You will inherently sacrifice freedoms, but you will gain all the more. Even evolutionarily speaking, human beings are social mammals, we can't survive independent of each other. We must sacrifice aspects of ourselves for the benefit of the group, it is the basis of survival of the fittest for social mammals like ourselves.

Barely able to understand that.