Hah, seems youtube didn't eat my comment after all. AND Stefan actually replied:
Me: Stefan, the reason I can't take you all that seriously is that even if the Bush administration fits the picture of this horrible peadophile moster you make the state out to be, the same just isn't true of the Swedish government (I'm Swedish) that provided bunkers for every citizen during the Cold War etc. If you could just take a more balanced view and admit that there are SOME benefits to top-down control..
Stefan: So you don't mind that the Swedish government will shoot parents if they don't pay for state indoctrination?
Me: It depends completely on what the government is asking me to accept, that's my point. I prefer a society where certain good (yes, good, as in high quality) rules are enforced by force because I don't have the same faith in human nature (free rational choice, free market principles, freedom, whatever you want to call it) as you do. Not all governments are monsters.
I hope he'll reply again but I doubt it.
Me: Stefan, the reason I can't take you all that seriously is that even if the Bush administration fits the picture of this horrible peadophile moster you make the state out to be, the same just isn't true of the Swedish government (I'm Swedish) that provided bunkers for every citizen during the Cold War etc. If you could just take a more balanced view and admit that there are SOME benefits to top-down control..
Stefan: So you don't mind that the Swedish government will shoot parents if they don't pay for state indoctrination?
Me: It depends completely on what the government is asking me to accept, that's my point. I prefer a society where certain good (yes, good, as in high quality) rules are enforced by force because I don't have the same faith in human nature (free rational choice, free market principles, freedom, whatever you want to call it) as you do. Not all governments are monsters.
I hope he'll reply again but I doubt it.
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Here are the great ironies that state-run societies have created:
* We’ve got GM food, and starving millions
* Coke and Pepsi everywhere, and no clean water to drink
* We’ve split the atom, and used it to incinerate cities and mutate genes
* We’ll have a laptop for every child, and pandemic sexual molestation
* We’ve broken the sound barrier, and shortened the time to bombs away
* Technology will save us - we will know how to do everything and respect nothing
* We’ve got wall to wall electronics, and absent parents
* We’ve got universal public education, and moral bankruptcy
* We vote in elections, and live in a dictatorship
* We’ve got sensory overload, and long for a touch
* We’ve got Homeland Security, and fear that our phones are tapped
* We’ve got endless war to make the world safe
* We’ve achieved “full spectrum dominance” and reaped hatred everywhere
* We can splice a gene, but cannot mend a heart
* We’ve got wide roads and narrow minds
* We’ve got machines to save labor, but no time to rest
* We support presidents who murder by the millions, and jail citizens who use an “illegal” drug
* “We have become nuclear giants and ethical infants.” ~ Gen Omar Bradley
There is no compelling reason to continue to embrace such a condition.
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