[at-l] to change (loose change)...

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 06:56 PM 10/28/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>It would have been far better had they left their cell phones at home, 
>spent the
>night in the cold -- and thus learned something about personal responsibility.

"Borough Fire Chief Tim Myers says several adults with small children 
became stranded after they lost track of time and ran out of daylight." 
(from the article)

So you would favor having small children subjected to a night in the cold, 
quite possibly suffering from exposure or dying, so that the adults would 
learn personal responsibility?

>Weary, who about this time of year, 57 years ago was rescued from the 
>"Airline"
>in Maine, by volunteer rescuers after total unpreparedness -- no map, no
>emergency gear, no food -- and a freak early season snow got us lost while 
>deer
>hunting. (The skeleton of another lost hunter that night was found five years
>later.)

It appears that you learned personal responsibility despite having been 
rescued when you were totally unprepared. So what makes you think these 
folks won't? A bit of charity might be a good companion to your personal 
responsibility.