Friday, January 5, 2007

Shell Pragmatic and Shell Ideology were having their usual stroll on the beach when they came across an elderly shell, all alone, searching frantically for her daughter shell who was supposed to pick her up after being washed ashore. Pragma wanted to just keep walking on, but Ideo disagreed. "Lets help the lady, Pragma, she looks like she needs help". "Oh ok," grunted Pragma. After a few hours of searching, the old shell was united with her daughter, and Ideo had a satisfied grin on his face. "Pragma, I cannot imagine why you hesitate to do good! See how satisfying it feels?". "Yeah", retorted Pragma, "that is all you'll get - feeling of satisfaction and that ain't going to fill m' shell you know! Haven't you heard? 'Doing good is reward in itself' they say. You know why? Because there ain't any rewards for good work like there are punishments for errors! You see those court houses? Do you see any "good citizen reward houses"? "

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