| Atticus Grinch |
01-04-2008 10:29 AM |
Ron Paul supporters rally in World of Warcraft
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Originally posted by LessinSF
Putting aside that I have no problem dealing if I was King with the schizos and the psychos, what is your solution; i.e where do you draw the line? I realize this is a metaphor, but at what point do I have to pay for the fuck-up from my high school to sit at home with his 42-inch TV doing meth because he has "ADHD?" Put another way, at what point do I have to stop paying for a 400-pound person's mobile chair to get around the Mall of America?
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If your point is that Libertarians, if elected, would immediately agree to keep all of the GOOD government programs that alleviate human suffering, I don't doubt it.
I just enjoy pointing out that Libertarians and hard-right Republicans who use "Government" as some kind of third-person bogeyman are not intellectually honest. This is a democracy. Government provides exactly what a majority of people are willing to pay for it to provide. Some of us will always be frustrated at what that majority commands, and it's your God-given right to rail against any individual government subsidy as absurd or unfair (in fact, I would often join you in that), but to pretend that Libertarianism elevates individuals over "Government" from a principled standpoint (and I doubt you really do) is naive. It, like all political parties, advocates a set of collectivist programs that should stay and a set of collectivist programs that should go. It's not a pristine or abstract political philosophy. Neither is, I should add, "Democrat" or "Republican."
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