How can I get people to read my blog?

[Kuciwalker]

Again, do you know of any Nazis that aren't anti-semitic, support Israel, and believe in Christianity?

Holy ****. If those are the only things that separate you from a Nazi, you're freaking scary.

[Kuciwalker]

Joining the services is most definitely a character building experience. As for killing an enemy, I hear it is, but I've never done it so I won't make that claim myself.

Holy ****

[Kuciwalker]

This amounts to "other people enjoy stuff that I think they shouldn't enjoy, so they should somehow be made to want the stuff I'd prefer".

No. Some of us just don't believe in worshipping extreme individual freedoms that came about recently in history. Some of us value traditional social structures that provide people with meaning. You can't be truly free to do whatever you want, even in your liberal society (there will always be laws), and society's rules and values are important to human beings. That's why they continue to believe in religion and submit to a set of rules made by people wiser than they are.

Called it!

[Kuciwalker]

Because I would be better at something else. My talents could be serve people by teaching or being a soldier. And yes, I have worked on a farm AND an assembly line. I've also done some mindless, white-collar work. I didn't find it enjoyable, valuable, or intellectually stimulating.

Now extend this to the millions of people who would be working on farms or in factories in your desired counterfactual...

[Kuciwalker]

Because it's not a good idea to run a society like that, not to mention, liberal society is a very new concept historically

Holy non sequitur, Batman!

[Kuciwalker]

So pretty much every society in history (except for a few states in Europe and their former colonies recently) functioned improperly? You're fighting an awful lot of history there.

This is a truly bizarre fallacy. Most reactionaries don't look back hundreds of years in their country for a social system to return to.

[Al B. Sure!]

Nevermind. Don't want to go on the record for agreeing with Kuci.

[Kuciwalker]

You realize, AS, that what this means is that your "money isn't everything" piece is really just an expression of "what you want is less important than what I want".

No, he's just trying to point out the fact that there is more to life than money, and it's actually a good thing if people pursue something other than maximizing their own profits. A concept completely foreign to you it seems.

Dude, quick recap: money is the stuff we use to freely purchase the stuff we want. So when you say "money isn't everything", you are saying "what you want is less important than what I think you should want".

[Elok]

Quick wager: how many more posts until somebody in this thread quotes the Beatles' thoughts about money's buying power?

[giblets]

Yeah, liberalism might only be a couple centuries old. It's like how we've only had electricity for a hundred years and people got along fine without it. True, but life was a lot worse back then, so who gives a ****? The fact that things like liberalism are relatively new just makes it easier to see how much BETTER OFF we are if we're not like Iran.

[Arrian]

God, we're bored around here nowadays, aren't we? 8 pages of playing with the little fascist wannabe.

Not a criticism - I've done the same thing with Ben many a time. Just an observation.

-Arrian

[Al B. Sure!]

[Al B. Sure!]

Ralph Tresvant has spoken

[flash9286]

Quick wager: how many more posts until somebody in this thread quotes the Beatles' thoughts about money's buying power?

Money don't get everything it's true.
What it don't get I can't use.
Now gimme money (that's what I want)

Not originally a Beatles song, but they covered it.

[Al B. Sure!]

Not originally a Beatles song, but they covered it.

Wikipedia says youre wrong.