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Comment Re:Your taxes at work (Score 1) 501

You got cause and effect backwards. I'm suspecting you of wanting to use force of law because your words have made you seem that way.

Which words scared you?

This is not true. No one wants people to think in a way that they believe is "wrong". That does not mean that I wish to legislate their thinking or even their speech. I have the power to ignore people, not do business with them, walk away or enter into debate.

That's not what you originally said. You said, and I quote, "we definitely should though teach people"

I did say that.

Who is this "we"? Using the word "we" conjured the image of quote unquote the public teaching (indoctrinating) individuals of what "we" perceive as the "right" values.

The images of "We" conjured up in your mind are yours to deal with. In the teaching of values and morals to people, that is the responsibility of parents and family.

You can say you don't stand for those things now, but I cannot peer into the then-future sir.

So. What you are getting at here is that because you are not currently all knowing and all seeing that you can use your ignorance to state whatever you wish about others with no other type of proof?

Interesting. Can you convict on this ignorance or only accuse?

Comment Re:Your taxes at work (Score 1) 501

You must be a conservative or a liberal. I only think this because you seem to operate on the principal that if someone does not like something someone says or thinks that the force of law must be used to "protect" the feelings of people.

This is not true. No one wants people to think in a way that they believe is "wrong". That does not mean that I wish to legislate their thinking or even their speech. I have the power to ignore people, not do business with them, walk away or enter into debate. I make those decisions. With freedom comes responsibility. I am responsible for my feelings. Not some idiot with no ability to do any non surface based thinking.

The power of the law does not exist to protect your feelings. It should be wielded to protect your life, your property and your freedoms only.

Comment Re:Repeat after me... (Score 4, Insightful) 534

Security guards have the same powers that anyone else has.

They have no more power than any normal citizen.

Oh. And Fuck Cops. The ones that murder and violate our rights and kill our dogs, and the ones that stand by while they watch their buddies break the law they were sworn to protect.

Comment Re:Your taxes at work (Score 1) 501

No. No one said anything about criminalizing certain thoughts. We definitely should though teach people that personal responsibility is a good thing, that if your only info comes from TV you should not vote, that your freedoms are very important, more important than the things you want for free.

We should get people back to blaming people. Break your ankle stepping off a curb? Pay fucking attention. Don't sue the city then make them paint every curb fluorescent green and purple. Don't spill hot coffee on yourself. Take care of your family. Learn that food stamps are a temporary fix and not make them a permanent fixture in your life.

You do not have to make laws to change society. You just need to change the people.

Comment Re:records go back to 1880, very funny (Score 1) 547

There currently exists a better option so the sooner we transition away from our coal/oil energy economy, the less painful everything else will be in the long term.

So what is this better option? Name something that is as easily available, transports well, has a high energy density and does not involve going back to the dark ages.

Nuclear is great for the power grid. Problem is the greens hate it. You just can not build a Nuclear power plant in the US. Solar, Wind and Hydro all have their places. None of which is on the road and to top it off ... Greens (hate Hydro, now bitching about windmills killing birds and they want no more bird deaths from the solar plant near Vegas. Can not make them happy.)

We could do a lot. Want to do good things for the earth and not kill off the rise of developing countries? Lest build Nuclear power plants here in the US. Lots of them. We can keep putting solar on the houses and businesses that want them.Wind farms for those areas where it makes sense. Remove subsidies from all energy. Oil and Green.

But we will not. What we will do is hate the energy we have, fear that which we could have and punish the world for breathing. Also ... Very important here.

Does anyone one really think that allowing a government agency to regulate the gas we breath out while we live is a good idea? Really? Because there is no way that a government agency would ever take the powers they start with and expand them till it is just silly. Right?

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