(March 12, 2012 at 11:14 pm)chipan Wrote:Quote: You seek to establish the first as a sufficient cause of the second. It is not. There is a gap, since someone needing help does not necessitate you helping them.
Don't believe in a good sameritan? I think there have been tons of books on the subject of doing good for goodness sake. Check them out.
I believe what genkaus was trying to point out was that if that were the case your reasoning would look like this:
1. Someone needs help.
2. You are available and desire to help them.
3. They accept your help.
4. You help them.
Or something of that nature.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari