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 Our safety net for thinking outside of the box is HUGE, as we are given so much privilege and credit (and resources) just for having the Columbia name attached to ours.

-- MiaWhite - 16 Apr 2008

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Mia, I think you're right. I'd just like to paraphrase it in language that speaks to me, and maybe to a few others:

Very early in the semester Eben noted that none of our Intro's contained the words "responsibility" or "duty." [or risk.]
I wonder whether we could benefit, by setting aside the question of "what I want to do," and ask "what I have a duty to do, in light of the assets (wealth, education, institutional membership) that the social roulette table has entrusted to me."
I imagine that it's a hard first decision to make -- the decision to ask THAT QUESTION over any other -- but that it makes all the subsequent decisions really really easy.

-- AndrewGradman - 16 Apr 2008

 
 
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