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To: James Seagrove who wrote (974135)

10/21/2016 12:43:25 PM

From: koan

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You don't seem to know much about the ancient Greeks either. It was the ancient Greeks that first talked about the social contract,

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so·cial con·tract

noun

an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. Theories of a social contract became popular in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries among theorists such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as a means of explaining the origin of government and the obligations of subjects.

Socrates took his life rather than endanger the social contract. Plato in his book the Republic talk about the illusion we all live in in his chapter:" the allegory of the cave".

The ancient Greeks were the first great culture to discuss sophisticated ideas of ethics and democracy and the best ways to run a society. Modern-day sociology tells us that a large middle-class is the healthiest thing for a well functioning and fair society.

The rich are simply not paying their fair share of societies costs. They want to use society to make their wealth, but they don't want to pay their fair share. A society has the right and indeed the obligation to ensure the health and welfare of its citizens.

Taxes are the cost of civilization and the society, indeed the most decent societies in the world today like the Nordic countries have high taxes, especially on the rich, and large governments. And they use those large governments for the health and welfare of the citizens.

That is why the Nordic countries and especially Denmark are polled as the happiest people on earth and their citizens have access to free public education and universal health care. And because they emphasize education so much the people vote in the right people.

They know better than to vote in a ignorant scoundrel like Trump.

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The ancient Greeks believed real wealth began with honor and material gain flowed from that. I see no honor in confiscatory taxes and Elizabeth Warren pretending she is Robin Hood. There is no honor in saying "you didn't build that" what she means is "you didn't build that so we will take it from you and give it to one of our cronies." This is pure evil and it strangles initiative and is the polar opposite of the American way.

Creating a false economy using imaginary science is also evil. Witness the financial wake created by Solyndra and the rest of the phoney AGW economy. Some Harvard bred morons are even advocating people be charged with hate crimes for disputing the "settled-science". I'm proud to be a settled-science denier.