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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
And if the sap stupid enough to still be fishing gets injured getting fish for the net weaver, fuck him. There's always someone else who can fish in his place.
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You're young, aren't you, HM? Trying a little too hard is an occupational hazard, and the only cure is the wisdom maturity brings, and maturity is only bought with time. One thing you'd do well to understand is that compassion is a very
old-fashioned virtue. For instance, did you know you can find it all through the Bible --
lauded as a good thing, and enjoined upon all persons -- both Old Testament and New?
The so-called "progressives" did not invent compassion: instead, they've tried to make it compulsory, and have thus given it all the good name of a first-century middle-eastern tax collector. Those guys weren't IRS men, but strongarm men for the Roman Imperium. They worked on commission, in essence, taking for themselves a percentage of what they took in.
The price of this approach to what is advertised as being compassionate is too high: what the "progressives" truly progress at the end of the day is the power of the State. Regressing the power of the State instead leads to greater freedom generally, and greater freedom is the surest recipe for prosperity there is.