To: denvertopbb
Subject: One More Mysterious Thing --
Date: Thu 09 Jul 2015 03:29 AM

You go out for a cigarette -- meaning typically you will be
back.

You don't say goodbye.

In all of the things that we have shared today.

All is Well -- I just wish that honesty is always here.

That means if you knew you were not coming back
tonight...Say so.  You either know or don't know you
feelings as you walked out the door.....

EVEN SO --- if you went out on a pretense for a Cigerette
and are not returning.... the proper thing to do is say
what
is up... I have decided to leave from outside smoking.

Peace and Goodwill. That would be proper interesolves 
of feelings and tentions abound from the evening.


Parable of the broken window
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Bastiat's original parable of the broken window from Ce
qu'on voit et ce qu'on ne voit pas (1850):

Have you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper,
James Goodfellow, when his careless son has happened to
break a pane of glass? If you have been present at such a
scene, you will most assuredly bear witness to the fact
that every one of the spectators, were there even thirty of
them, by common consent apparently, offered the unfortunate
owner this invariable consolation – "It is an ill wind
that blows nobody good. Everybody must live, and what would
become of the glaziers if panes of glass were never
broken?"
 
Now, this form of condolence contains an entire theory,
which it will be well to show up in this simple case,
seeing that it is precisely the same as that which,
unhappily, regulates the greater part of our economical
institutions.

Suppose it cost six francs to repair the damage, and you
say that the accident brings six francs to the glazier's
trade – that it encourages that trade to the amount of
six francs – I grant it; I have not a word to say against
it; you reason justly. The glazier comes, performs his task,
receives his six francs, rubs his hands, and, in his heart,
blesses the careless child. All this is that which is
seen.

But if, on the other hand, you come to the conclusion, as
is too often the case, that it is a good thing to break
windows, that it causes money to circulate, and that the
encouragement of industry in general will be the result of
it, you will oblige me to call out, "Stop there! Your
theory is confined to that which is seen; it takes no
account of that which is not seen."

It is not seen that as our shopkeeper has spent six francs
upon one thing, he cannot spend them upon another. It is
not seen that if he had not had a window to replace, he
would, perhaps, have replaced his old shoes, or added
another book to his library. In short, he would have
employed his six francs in some way, which this accident
has prevented.