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Originally Posted by lurkette
...Why don't you get equally worked up about the rich guy who gets first crack at IPOs because he's already a large institutional investor, or the corporate agriculture company that gets paid for NOT planting, or gets heavily subsidized so they can undercut growers from other countries? I understand the impulse that leads to the really strong sense of unfairness that someone else can get something for nothing and you're busting your ass to make do, but really you'd be better served to get pissed about something that affects you more.
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Woah, I think we have travelled outside of the Monkeysphere here.
http://www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/monkeysphere.html
How about we don't get worked up about any of this, and instead sit back and relax?
I really think that You'd be better served to not get pissed at all, whether it affects you or not.
Hey, my buddy Carl Marx said that we have to rise up, and even Bob Marley wanted to fight against the system.
After extensive head scratching and pondering the existence of good/evil/sloth/gluttony/envy/pride has resulted in my personal gratitude that I don't require help to survive... I am also thankful that people can turn to the collective and recieve help.
I thought long and hard about Mal's system of segregation and re-education, but realized that to enforce that we would have to violate people's Constitutional (or in Canada, our Charter) rights. When we force people to act in a certain way to obtain assistance, are we not stripping them of their liberty? Have people died in wars to allow government to dictate living conditions on the poor and destitute? My friends, the present system is as good as we (the royal use of the word here) can get. People are still free, although that is a relative term, to decide how to live within the means government gives them.
Freedom is priceless in my opinion, and I would rather hand over all of my humble possessions than decide how someone else should live. Is that not what some of the posters are doing in this thread? Are they not deciding how people should live? How DARE WE? Oh, this is just a discussion, and we are not actually in charge of anything... thank (insert personal deity here)