On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Biju Chacko <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > It is easy for one who has voted with his feet to condemn those who can't.
No sense going after the arguer, please do attack the argument. > Without some sensitivity a lot of very valid concerns sound like, "You must > deny yourself the consumerist comforts that I enjoy to improve my quality > of life." > > Or in this case, "Walk to work so that I have something pretty to look at." While I have genuine sympathies for your plight, I am not entirely sure nothing can be done. To say so, would be to subscribe to that awful Bangalore phrase sandwich of defeatism, escapism and fatalism, "We are like this only, adjust maadi". If the only options on the table are either to sigh in resignation, or to bristle with discontent, I choose the latter in the hope it musters up change.
