[pct-l] Re: AT hiker "exploits charity and trust"

[jerrygoller at backpackgeartest.org (Jerry Goller)]

Actually, this is a good and positive thing....because it *is* news. If it
weren't very unusual, unusual enough to make the news....*then* I'd be
worried. 

Goodness and random acts of kindness are the norm, not the newsworthy
exception.

Jerry


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-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Moorehead
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 12:28 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Re: AT hiker "exploits charity and trust"

> It's really amazing that with all of the countless tales of goodness, 
> of absolute miracles, of the hands-down best of human character there 
> is to write about in the >world of long-distance hiking, that what 
> makes the press and gets sensationalized is the rare exception.
>
> L-Rod


 Acts of human kindness tend to get very little press compared to violent
crime and the darkest facets of humanity, easily  played to our naturally
morbid curiosity.