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To: RetiredNow who wrote (128221)	11/30/2012 2:40:19 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) of 149317

I have read my history and the studies and what you say is pure nonsense. In fact I have advanced degrees in social science and worked in the field. Right wingers said the same thing to me about raising my children. I gave them everything, raised them very gently, had few rules and sure as hell did not invoke tough love. Tough lover is for loser parents. And my kids thank me all the time for being gentle and generous and say most of their friends had contentious relationships with their parents. I never once had to tell either to do their homework. I never even thought about hitting them and they were NEVER afraid of me. Both went to fine universities and got advanced degrees and both have wonderful mates, kids and fine lives; and a million friends, wonderful personalities and people love them By your theory they would both be spoiled brats. But they aren't. They are stong because I did not beat them down and always boosted their egos. We need to help the poor not invoke tough love. Good lord you are jaded. Tough love my ass-lol! <<It's not a lack of empathy, but rather short term love versus long term love. What Socialists do is give the heroin addict more heroin, which ultimately kills him. They say, he's really begging for it, so I love him and will give it to him. Long term love a lot of times is tough love. A Libertarian recognizes the root cause is that the heroin is killing the drug addict and refuses to participate and will not enable the drug addicts self-destructive behavior. Very similarly, Socialists want to intervene in every aspect of people's lives, because Socialists are like the well-meaning grandmother who wants to control everyone in the family, because she believes she knows better what's good for them. This is why Socialism always in the end leads to Totalitarianism. It always starts with well-meaning people imposing their will on others and it always ends in Totalitarian control over others.

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