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Toronto, 2004.11.12

Today a 'homeless' fellow on the street barked at me for some help. I stopped and approached, and he held a small mickey of rum at me. I muttered at me that he needed help getting it open.

I could see that his hands were twisted by arthritis, and were certainly not going to do the job. So I opened the bottle for him and passed it back.

Surely an interesting ethical question lurks in there somewhere....

rand()m quote

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

—-Antoine de Saint Exupery