Just checking back in after a longish break. All I can say at this stage is that I find this thread definitely very edgy and thought-provoking stuff. Well done for stirring things up!
S&A
"A man can be destroyed but not defeated" - from The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway.
Which I take to mean that every man has within him a spirit of relentlessness and optimism. Its already there; he just has to cultivate it.
