Sophoclees -- I love your marriage-counselling post. My jokes are rarely understood on the net, and now I see I have made the same mistake in missing your irony (sarcasm?)

Hesperis -- I mostly agreed with your last entry, but a) I don't believe it will ever be possible to create a society in which EVERYONE consciously recognizes they have choices and usually makes the socially responsible ones and b) I have no idea why you accuse me of lacking compassion. I just don't subscribe to the notion that "society" and "I" are disconnected units.