To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (197160 ) 3/11/2023 1:34:24 PM From: sense Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 218201 Nope .. right choices are right choices ... no excuses LOL !!! It is a fundamental error... to ignore reality... as you are choosing... because it conflicts with what your preferred brand of politics requires of you... in order to have it not be exposed as... delusional. And then... claim that has to be "right choices" ?I did not say that .. .. I said altruism was more than charity .. ie giving at the collection plate Great. So, we agree that you're not putting words in my mouth... and then arguing with them.socialism depends on people "falling for it" while failing to understand it. You are so jaded LOL Yes. Contact with reality will tend to do that to you. But, note... I did not impose any boundary limits ? "No difference between communists, capitalists, and kings, other than who gets to be king" ? And, still not seeing any effort in addressing... why are they the same ? Because, their error is SHARED ?an Amish Barn raising is socialism !! No. It's not. You don't get to choose to be blind to reality... rewrite the rules (or, redefine words) to suit your myopia... and impose that on us ? Socialism wants to pretend its this warm fuzzy and friendly "community" thing... while co-opting every facet of "community"... as IF the fact "community" exists... justifies forcibly imposing a NARROW myopic view based in ignoring reality on us... as if qualified to GOVERN us ? Total bull shit. Community... is NOT socialism... but, socialism is error based on wrongly co-opting it as a falsely applied brand. Community existed before "systemic political error" invented recently... and will persist long after "systemic political error"" has been properly buried. The answer is "200,000,000, and counting"... and, "not the Amish". Here's the question. ..