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No personal offense to the author, but I'd suggest removing this story completely because it doesn't convey anything positive despite the attempt at teaching about helping people to help themselves.  When a person is drowning it's because they can't swim or tread water, and the reactions in the story are just awful.  Can you imagine a lifeguard throwing a short line and expecting the victim to close the gap, or throwing a line and letting it go?  All this story does is make the conservative look unbelievably callous and the liberal unbelievably stupid, so if the intention is to make a point in a meaningful, believable way then this needs a fresh start.--[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 16:15, 13 June 2008 (EDT)

No personal offense to the author, but I'd suggest removing this story completely because it doesn't convey anything positive despite the attempt at teaching about helping people to help themselves.  When a person is drowning it's because they can't swim or tread water, and the reactions in the story are just awful.  Can you imagine a lifeguard throwing a short line and expecting the victim to close the gap, or throwing a line and letting it go?  All this story does is make the conservative look unbelievably callous and the liberal unbelievably stupid, so if the intention is to make a point in a meaningful, believable way then this needs a fresh start.--[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 16:15, 13 June 2008 (EDT)

Take it out of you wish, but the point of a parable is that it uses a story to demonstrate a lesson, not necessarily a story that could really happen.  Jesus talked about people attempting to remove specks of dust from other's eyes wile walking about with logs in their own eyes.  He didn't mean that literally.  The point of this parable was that liberals tend to throw money (the rope) at problems, even if money won't solve anything; and that coservatives often expect people to help themselves, even when they're not entirely able.  [[User:CraigC|CraigC]] 16:26, 13 June 2008 (EDT)

Take it out of you wish, but the point of a parable is that it uses a story to demonstrate a lesson, not necessarily a story that could really happen.  Jesus talked about people attempting to remove specks of dust from other's eyes wile walking about with logs in their own eyes.  He didn't mean that literally.  The point of this parable was that liberals tend to throw money (the rope) at problems, even if money won't solve anything; and that coservatives often expect people to help themselves, even when they're not entirely able.  For what it's worth, a minister told me this parable.  [[User:CraigC|CraigC]] 16:26, 13 June 2008 (EDT)