The Cellar  

Go Back   The Cellar > Main > Politics
FAQ Community Calendar Today's Posts Search

Politics Where we learn not to think less of others who don't share our views

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 11-10-2006, 12:38 PM   #1
Urbane Guerrilla
Person who doesn't update the user title
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Southern California
Posts: 6,674
Quote:
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.
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.
__________________
Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
Urbane Guerrilla is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:31 AM.


Powered by: vBulletin Version 3.8.1
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.