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Re: Those stupid liberal judges are at it again!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 13 Sep 2002 04:49:11 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> Why should I have to prove that? It doesn't matter if it is the
> unsocialistic part that is carrying the socialistic part as long as the
> country as a whole is working.
This I think is the crux so I snipped the rest. If a car has a flat tire,
but the driver is driving it down the road because the other three tires are
OK, is the car "working"?
One could argue that it is. After all, the car is moving in the desired
direction. I would argue that it is not. At least not working as designed.
It is suffering a malfunction.
Socialism *is* that flat tire, and your argument is essentially that because
a country that has a mixed economy isn't actually starving and in armed
insurrection it is "working".
I disagree and I see no further proof necessary other than to point out that
the closer one gets to a pure capitalist system the better off on average
everyone is, and the closer one gets to a pure socialist system the worse
off on average everyone is. That's pretty generally accepted, I think,
because we have so much empirical proof all around us.
If you like mixed economies you also may enjoy hitting yourself in the head
with a hammer, but doing so only on odd dates, sparing yourself on even ones.
I'll pass.
As to Libertarianism being like a religion, I haven't bothered to deny it
because I can't see it as anything other than a joke on your part, it has no
basis in fact.
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| (...) No. A car with a flat is going to eventually crash (not work). Governments with a "flat" would eventually fail. Better to use a clogged fuel injector analogy, where the performance is impaired, but leaving the car still working. (...) The next (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I don't really have to: it's you that needs to prove that virtually every single country on the planet is a failure. _ :-O (Edvard Munch) - I said that every country practices socialism to some degree or another. You are stating that socialism (...) (22 years ago, 13-Sep-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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