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Amaras · 10-16-2008, 06:32 AM

Smooth, I read you loud and clear.
Barack, I wrote this, went and played with daughter for a long time,
came back and posted. Hence it's disjointed nature.......
Gotta be honest with you, my point was to illustrate how differently folks might read ANY question.
I was trying to illustrate the idea so clearly espoused in your Walter Lippman quote.
Bring a little perspective to a heated debate that was alienating some of those I think bring a heavy amount
of education and intelligence to our debates here on TFP.
As to Kant, I do not think it can be said that any philosopher has ever definitely answered ANYTHING.
Similar to how most scientists will say they theories, not proofs.
Probably true, but not certainly.

I think in a debate like this, rather than throw quotes and cliches at one another, a statement of personal
values is important to shed light on where one is coming from.

So, for me, when I am strong ($ or whatever), it is to help my team (comprised in my case of my fellow
Canadians, I choose to live here). I believe it with increase my chances of living in a society more
towards my personal ideal. When I am weak, I hope that others feel the same way.

As to the rich tiny segment paying a majority of the taxes, well, they DO possess the majority of the
wealth as well. Wealth is concentrating in an ever decreasing few hands. It's obscene, in my
opinion.
They need us to produce more babies to buy the products from the companies they own so they
can in turn make more profits. Let's not forget to populate armies that are mostly used to protect
economiSo it's not a moral thing for them, but rather in their
best interest to ensure that the rest of the population does become so poor as to rise up (French
Revolution, anyone?).
Gotta go change the baby, more later.......

10-16-2008, 06:32 AM	#64 (permalink)
Amaras Junkie Location: At my daughter's beck and call.	Smooth, I read you loud and clear. Barack, I wrote this, went and played with daughter for a long time, came back and posted. Hence it's disjointed nature....... Gotta be honest with you, my point was to illustrate how differently folks might read ANY question. I was trying to illustrate the idea so clearly espoused in your Walter Lippman quote. Bring a little perspective to a heated debate that was alienating some of those I think bring a heavy amount of education and intelligence to our debates here on TFP. As to Kant, I do not think it can be said that any philosopher has ever definitely answered ANYTHING. Similar to how most scientists will say they theories, not proofs. Probably true, but not certainly. I think in a debate like this, rather than throw quotes and cliches at one another, a statement of personal values is important to shed light on where one is coming from. So, for me, when I am strong ($ or whatever), it is to help my team (comprised in my case of my fellow Canadians, I choose to live here). I believe it with increase my chances of living in a society more towards my personal ideal. When I am weak, I hope that others feel the same way. As to the rich tiny segment paying a majority of the taxes, well, they DO possess the majority of the wealth as well. Wealth is concentrating in an ever decreasing few hands. It's obscene, in my opinion. They need us to produce more babies to buy the products from the companies they own so they can in turn make more profits. Let's not forget to populate armies that are mostly used to protect economiSo it's not a moral thing for them, but rather in their best interest to ensure that the rest of the population does become so poor as to rise up (French Revolution, anyone?). Gotta go change the baby, more later....... __________________ Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. -Noam Chomsky Love is a verb, not a noun. -My Mom The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. -Louis Aragon, "La Porte-plume," Traite du style, 1928 Last edited by Amaras; 10-16-2008 at 06:37 AM..