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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (24579)	5/18/2009 10:37:47 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Not bragging at all, just flabbergsted I have to expalin or defend it to anyone. The only way to have total individual freedom is anarchy. Well, we had versions of that for thousands of years until democracy; And we lived like animlas, with most of us suffering horrible short lives as peasants under the rule of fuedal lords. It was our creation of democracy that protected the little guy from the powerful who would do them harm for the first tiem in human history. >> Government helping someone out is not a random act of kindness it is a forced decision against the taxpayer at the point of a gun. "[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them." G.K. Chesterton I notice you like to brag it up about how helpful you are to your fellow human being. Have you ever read the parable about the Pharisees?<<