>Benjamin Franklin started every day by asking ""What good shall I do this day?" One day he decided to establish the first Public library to which generations of Americans were subsequently "forced" to contribute. He also said this: "As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
>
>Lenin, Stalin, Franklin. Bunch of commies. ;-)

I kindly advise you not cut off previous messages. In this particular case it's allowed you to distort the point of the discussion, and I don't think that you did it inadvertently. The starting message meant that it's Ok when individuals suffer for the sake of common good. This is clear connection point to Lenin/Stalin and it makes Franklin allusion totally ridiculuos.