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To: average joe who wrote (779380)	4/10/2014 4:12:16 PM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By J_F_Shepard Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572033

Boy, I don't know what to think. That is just crazy talk. Let me address it and see how you can answer my criticism. << That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about how we left the nomadic life 10,000 years ago, settled down invented written language and started our progression toward civilization. And look how much smarter the world is today than 200 years ago. That was all EDUCATIN! Today no one has open slavery and most first world countries are democracies. <<I'm sorry but what you are advocating is a return to the tribe.>> No, I am advocating a civilized world run by laws that protect everyone. Especially the children. <<We see that on the t.v. everyday when the top monkey in Russia invades Ukraine.>> Putin is a dictator and what you get without democracy! <<Personally I will choose Victorious Virtuous Values over jungle drums even if it means some get left behind.>> Where do you find that. Those are just meaningless words. <<I want a constitution that promises a separation of church and state and I don't want to finance via my taxes things I find abhorrent.>> You have one. <<I don't expect people to pay for my mistakes as I'm ready willing and able to pay for my own. >> You never need help from anyone? You never need a doctor, fire dept, police dept, or laws. Could you have defended yourself from Hitler? << I'm not my brothers keeper nor do I expect to be kept.>> As long as you live in our society that protects you, you will need to go along with us who feel we are our brothers keeper. Psychopaths don't feel they are their brothers keeper either, but they rely on society for their protection. So like it or not, people of conscience, a society of conscience will force the psychopaths to pay their fair share to help everyone. <<Democracy was a big mistake and even the Greeks pointed this out.>> That is a really stupid thing to say. The Greeks kept slaves and were just beginners in developing a social contract and politics. Tell me a political system better than democracy? "Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men." Tell me how you do that? You cannot. You have an imaginary idea in your head that will never work. No man is an island.