Owen at Boots and Sabers describes his idealism thus:

I believe that you succeed or fail based on the sum total of your decisions and that these decisions can only be made by one person � you. Not the government. Not your family. Not your peers. Just you. And I believe in you. Therein lies the root of my idealism.

His bio tells me that he has four children. I don't for a second believe that he'd consider his children's success/failure to be independent of the many decisions that he has been making and will continue to make. Nor do I believe that he'd never find any part of their success/failure to be his own.

It is often said about idealism that one cannot afford it in the real world. Since the real world in which I live doesn't consist of individual, Utopian islands nor can it ever, would Owen's idealism be an example of the kind that is beyond my means?

--aslam

1:25:48 PM