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Originally Posted by Mondak
That really doesn't seem rational at all. Why exactly does not wanting to fund Stem Cell research have to be tied to living in a shack, having electricity, health care (consumers pay for the last two), police, roads, sewage, oil or an auto industry?
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It was meant as a rhetorical, and extreme, analogy.
Suffice it to say that I don't subscribe to the "less Government is better" political concept.
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Would you REALLY listen to him after he did these unrelated things?
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No. I thought I had made that clear. And, just in case I hadn't, I was being slightly sarcastic. The written word, especially on the internet, is not always accurate or reliable in communicating the subtleties of one's point.
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There are a few things in this world that are true public goods - things that the cost cannot easily be distributed to those who consume the good.
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I would say that there are quite a great deal.
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Saying that our government has pushed the definition of public goods too far and this was something that he did not want to pay for (particularly when our government is in massive debt) simply reflects choices and not hypocrisy.
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That's true. But the sentence I quoted did not say that. It stated that "personal liberty" was the first "casualty" [sic] of centralized Government. I disagree.
I believe members of society have an
obligation to contribute to that society, whether they agree or support all its actions or not. There's a whole different topic for discussion here...
Mr Mephisto