"Freedom" thread or something

Epignosis wrote: Yes Pat, please.  If you knew Scott, you would know he is the most mild mannered individual one could meet here.  His remarks could have benefited from quotation marks, but he is an accountant, not an English teacher.

I was quite taken aback actually. It was unexpected which made it all the more frustrating. Sometimes the simplest answer is to read something twice it seems.


Edited by Equality 7-2521 - July 11 2012 at 20:33

The T wrote: Another municipality in FL announces they'll only hire non-smokers. I can tolerate private companies hiring based on whatever parameters they want but public ones? I don't like this idea too much. Soon they will hire only people who eat their veggies.

Makes sense with the "Affordable" Healthcare Act.

^ They can discriminate against you based on smoking (because liberals don't like smoking) but not on the basis of race, gender, disability, sexual preference, hair color, eye color, if you've been in prison, if you have a tattoo on your forehead that says SATAN 4 EVA,, if you have bizarre facial piercings, if you've had extreme body modification to make yourself look like a tiger, if you have tourettes or any other mental problems, height, weight (maybe not weight, actually. Liberals hate fat people too) and whether you're an ill-mannered, entitled punk.

Is that clearer now?


Edited by thellama73 - July 11 2012 at 22:28

Well, some of the liberal nazis trying to get a law passed at my alumni banning smoking anywhere outside on campus. I think i'll light one up next to one of them!

God I really want to smoke after looking at that.

He does look pretty suave in that picture. I won't lie.

The T wrote: Nobody can take away from him the fact that he was extremely photogenic.

I still like smoking. I just like the feeling it gives me when I do some reading and it's great after several drinks.

^You have never understood that because you haven't even tried. Read a little and you'll see there's no conflict between his view of the abortion (I personally am in favor of limited abortion).

Government is not accountable. When was the last time it paid any of its crimes? If you think of it, corporations fail and go bankrupt, they lie and their bosses might face punishment. Doesn that apply to government?

Government is like the worst of them all. Big, gigantic, and on top of that, with the monopoly of force.

thellama73 wrote: Yes. It is sort of paradoxical to rail against big corporations but support the government. The government is just a huge corporation with the important difference that they can force people to buy their products at gunpoint.

I think Alan Moore (comics author) is somewhat disingenuous when you compare his explicit claims of anarchism to other things he's said, but I like this:

"I believe that all other political states are in fact variations or outgrowths of a basic state of anarchy; after all, when you mention the idea of anarchy to most people they will tell you what a bad idea it is because the biggest gang would just take over. Which is pretty much how I see contemporary society."