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Undertoad · 12-08-2006, 11:15 AM

I have often seen the argument for enforced charity, or income redistribution, or socialism, that begins with the premise that "people suck".

Call it "anti-social socialism" -- it's common from what I have seen, and I don't understand it at all.

People suck, therefore it is right and proper for an elite government (that somehow does not suck, even though it is made of the same sucky people) to manage half their financial life. However, same government cannot legislate against saying "fuck" on the radio, because that's fascism.

12-08-2006, 11:15 AM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	I have often seen the argument for enforced charity, or income redistribution, or socialism, that begins with the premise that "people suck". Call it "anti-social socialism" -- it's common from what I have seen, and I don't understand it at all. People suck, therefore it is right and proper for an elite government (that somehow does not suck, even though it is made of the same sucky people) to manage half their financial life. However, same government cannot legislate against saying "fuck" on the radio, because that's fascism.

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