To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (197335 ) 3/16/2023 1:04:14 PM From: sense Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 218223 in your world his son would be doomed ... Is your fictionalization of reality... as required to justify you in claiming "community"... requires empowering you to forcibly direct others choices... ie, the OPPOSITE of community... which is voluntary. In conflating altruism and charity, with community, as good things... that only exist if there is socialism ? Posing all the "good things" as objects... each requiring a willful misunderstanding of reality in origins... as that is required to justify... enabling all the "less good things" that are the purpose of the misdirection justifying "empowerment" ? What you highlight, instead of making your point stick, is that misunderstanding of altruism, charity, community and all good things... as requiring your brand of politics in order to exist... willfully engages in that purposeful disconnect of reality from its actual engines... to enable a bait and switch... which ensures [make better decisions] cannot ever occur... as once the error is engaged, and committed... the error has to be defended... if must FORCE denial of broader perspective, first. A single perspective... the only one allowed as politics requires... but, already proven to be in error... suggests... what... as the locus of [bad decisions] ? However, my reply should be simple enough to understand: "You are wrong, and thus bad... and must immediately submit to my direction... as otherwise all good things are lost. Because... I'm the only one who understands what "good" is... and where it comes from... which is, first, a product of your submission". Said the communists, capitalists and kings... However, even if inadvertently... you have begun tapping at or around the root of how and why it is that the evil of communism, the evil of socialism, and the evil of capitalism are all the same... Money, power, control... are not the same things... but, they are the shared object of greed, and often the object of design in the shared origins of error in the seeking... but, they are not the only thing ? It is simply a choice... to see the world with a known to be limited perspective... that makes the objects of others greed into the most important thing ? Biblically is would be stated not as "Money is the root of all evil"... but as "the LOVE of money is the root of all evil"... So, yeah... not buying the bullshit that "community" means... me doing what you tell me to...