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["Tracy J" <tracy9j AT frontiernet.net>]

Exactly what I feeling about the whole subject.  I just have such a hard 
time getting my thoughts into writing.  Thank you, Gene.

Tracy Julian
in East North-Central Minnesota

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>

> Most of this post is sound, but it is incomplete. The decisions one
> makes most certainly cause results and further decisions needing to
> be made, further results, ad infinitum. But to understand a person we
> must go back to first decisions. Earliest decisions were made based
> on existing conditions and knowledge and desire. A decision made
> based on affluent conditions with strong, positive parental guidance
> and with a strong base of sound values will be a different decision
> than one based on squalid conditions, stupid parents and a value
> system based on easiest survival. Hence the need to "break the cycle"
> of living on welfare. If no other conditions are known to the
> decision maker, then decisions will be predictably bad.