Samaritan Snare

I sorry, but there's really
nothing more idiotic
than trying to do
the right thing without
actually thinking it
all the way through.

I much prefer an
analytical approach,
one that calculates
the actual benefits
to all involved, rather
than the one that
merely appears
to be good.

I'm a walker, and yes,
I understand among
many other things
it's easy to find people
who can't do that
very intelligently,
but to give credit
where it's valuable,
how about stopping
to wonder if whether
it's really worth anyone's
time to try and give me
the right of way, when
if you just went, we
would both benefit
exactly as it should
have played out.

David Foster Wallace,
to go back to him,
believes it's inevitable
to depend on some sort
of domineering leadership,
and that's another thing
I vehemently disagree
with him on.

To my philosophy,
that kind of reasoning
is the same as
the samaritan snare,
the belief that assinine
thinking actually
making its own
kind of sense.

Leaders only exist
to help guide us -
I would more properly
call anyone who aspires
to such a position
a guardian, but then
where would be
the glory?

It wouldn't be as
prestigious, just
as doing the unnecessary
good deed would
not make you feel
good about your own
supposed charity.

Well, we don't need
charity, and we don't
need greedy leaders,
all we need
is a little common sense.