On Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:19:12 -0400 Hal Vaughan wrote: > > And that proves even more that you are not volunteering your time > unless you get something for it. That's not volunteering. > Volunteering is giving without expecting a ROI. This is fiction. Everyone who volunteers gets a return on their investment; without it, they wouldn't volunteer. That "return" may not be in some sort of traditional form like cash, goods, or services; but if the volunteer absolutely truly got nothing out of it -- no sense of satisfaction, no gladness at having been able to help another, absolutely nothing -- then there is nothing to drive the volunteer towards that activity as opposed to another. -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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