Re: The cost of Jewish communal responsibility

[BlackMonk <BlackMonk...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mel Korn" <mkorn (at) rogers(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:42 AM
Subject: RE: The cost of Jewish communal responsibility


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
> [mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of BlackMonk
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 8:04 AM
> To: World music from a Jewish slant
> Subject: Re: The cost of Jewish communal responsibility
> SNIP
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> Again, not at a synagogue that engages in spiritual blackmail.
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> And someone who can pay 80 bucks for a concert ticket has no place in this
> conversation. "If they have no bread, let them eat cake," right?
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> Your reply is indicative of the problems with threads like these ----- 
They
> can quickly degenerate into personal and "less than polite" responses. I
> find that your comment is judgmental and inappropriate, i.e. it is not
your
> business how someone chooses to spend his or her hard earned money. You do
> not know their circumstances as they do not know yours.
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No, but I know they HAVE the money to spend on $80 concert tickets. That's
the point. I wasn't making any judgement about someone who would spend
their money that way.

In my defense, I was reacting to posts that threw around the word
"freeloaders" and made extremely cavalier remarks about people who might
have financial troubles. It's very easy to say "well, that's what it costs"
when you have the money to pay that much.


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