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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Not to be entirely cynical (or flippant), but you can usually buy them (or buy your way free of restrictions) if you have money. What, you didn't know there are effectively different social freedoms/rights for the rich and the poor? See: abortion. The debate is, as a practical matter, irrelevant to anyone with the means to hie themselves across the state border (or to Canada in the event of fed. regulation). See, also: voting. Voting is a much less effective way to cause your gov't to represent your opinions than gaining access to and incurring obligation from your representatives by judicious use of funds. See, also: 4th A/5th A/criminal rights. OJ.
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Oh, hell, of course there are two sets of rules. But its not fair that people with money have to go to Canada to have certain medical procedures performed which more than half the country thinks they should have a right to receive domestically. And its not fair that a poor or a rich person shouldn't be able to get those procedures domestically because of the views of someone 1000 miles from them who they've never met. We're not "all in this together" in this country. I shouldn't have my morals dictated to me by sam, the Bible Thumper from OK. No offense to Sam, but Sam should mind his own goddamned business and be happy to live off govt subsidies derived from my taxes. He's the last asshole who should be telling me what I can or can't do in my home or to my own body. When he starts pulling his weight, then I'll give his religious bunk some airtime. Until then, he should be damn grateful to me.
I am not telling anyone how to live. I am vehemently arguing that they should have as much freedom as possible. I am arguing for personal responsibility, the concept to which so many of these judgmental people pay so much lip service. yet when I say people should be personally responsible, they say "No... I only want you to be personally responsible until that responsibility allows you to do something I don't like. Then I want the govt to step in and enforce my moral code on you. Even though I've never lived a day in your shoes and my moral code probably doesn't work practically for a person in your shoes." I say Bullshit. If you don't like what I'm doing here in heathen Philly, well fine. I don't like the way you practice what i see as backward values in OK. So lets be content to leave each other alone.
I'll leave them alone - why won't they leave me alone? Why do they need to tell me what to do?
