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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (18106)	7/13/2001 1:49:10 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

Noblesse Oblige requires an elite class of citizens who decide for the mass of citizens what cause is worthy of the entire body of citizens to support. There is no sanction for the victims from their largesse and everyone pays for their choices like it or not. A Republic can have no Noblesse Oblige. This is Robin Hood and Santa Claus dressed up with the full authority of the state. Unbelievably some people think that money earned by talent and hard work is not as good as money bequeathed by the state. There is nothing wrong with an individuals Noblesse Oblige his choices belong to him. The granting of large sums by the elite via the collective coffers is always corrupt. The political expression of Noblesse Oblige is collectivism or statism, which holds that man's life and work belong to the state to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever largesse it deems to be in its collective good. They say "I can't prove it but I feel it's good to give like Santa Claus and Robin Hood, to give what does not belong to me, because I feel good when I do it." Society learns too late that a feeling is not a standard of anything. And in this state of Noblesse Oblige instead of ten commandments society will have a wonderful book of 10,000 laws that everyone will have to memorize. And because no law is immutable we will interchange and modify the 10,000 laws every five minutes because, after all, "can't one compromise and borrow different ideas from different philosophies according to the expediency of the moment?" In the Ivory Tower you can spew the most unworkable ideas and push all the buttons and line up all the soldiers and in the end shrug your shoulders because you honestly didn't know. The people that honestly believed you did know were fools who should have done more research. No one is responsible, all you can do is hope the next gang learned a lesson or two before they impose their morality on the herd.