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Originally Posted by Herr Onymous-Bosch
People who submit post #105 in a thread are heterophobic hippies.
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Hippy? You? Now come here and give an old hetero a big smooch you darling harlequin you. *grin*
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Originally Posted by Lord T Hawkeye
What? No! That won't happen! The government will have used their special magic powers to drive out the evil business men so they can have us living in a land of milk and honey!
"So, why do we need all these regulations and programs? Can't people be trusted to work it out themselves?"
"No! People are idiots and that's why we need government keeping things in line or it would all be chaos"
"So people can't function without central planning to keep things running?"
"Yes"
"So...aren't governments made up of people themselves? Where's their central planners"
Compare this to...
"So why don't you believe in evolution? You really think life couldn't have formed on it's own through the principles described by the theory?"
"No, it could never happen. Anything so complex would have to have a creator. It's obvious!"
"So anything complex must have a creator?"
"Yes"
"But...such a god would be complex too. Doesn't he need a creator according to your own logic?"
This is why I call anti free market people dogmatists because they use the exact same fallacious, special pleading argument employed against the theory of evolution which coincidentally, the free market borrows a lot of ideas from. It sounds okay at first but both ultimately beg the question that the collectivists cannot answer: You say things need central planning but why does god/gov get a free pass?
You must explain why god/gov gets to be the exception to your own claims or else you're not explaining anything.
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Here is a little mental test I came up with in the gun shop I owned.
Consider this statment and go with your first GUT reaciton.
"Kids with guns."
If your first honest reaction was:
1. "MY GOD! Stop this MADNESS and get that gun away from that kid"...YOU have been programmed.
Why? Simple...consider the next reaction....
2. Is he with his dad? Are they hunting, target shooting? Is he in 4H?
See my point?
When was the last time you saw an average citizen who does not have a badge, with a gun, in a movie or TV show who was not some inbred, wife beating, tattooed, retard and was more a depiction of Elmer Fudd than anything else? The one exception is the poor, never shot a gun sort, who picks one up and defends them self only to toss the gun away after and burst out crying.
Now you have a small glimpse into what it was like as a Black man in the 1950s who saw nothing but Amos and Andy, Stepin Fetchit and Rochester. Everyone "Like you" is a boob and a danger to himself and other.
The Left assumes man is evil. The Libertarian assumes man is basically good by nature. A modern Liberal sees a man with a gun and assumes he is out to kill someone and must be stopped. The Libertarian can see that same man and, in my case, stop to ask what kind of gun it is and feel a little safer as there is sufficient force available (Along with my legally carried and concealed firearm) to handle any incidents that might arise.
Wanna consider something REALLY scary?
If, we as Citizens of the U.S., are endowed by our CREATOR with certain inalienable rights......IF there is no CREATOR, do we have rights at all as there was no one to endow us with them?
That was your happy thought for the week. Enjoy it. *Wink*