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Subject:	Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2003 19:41:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:

You’re absolutely free to leave the country and move to an area that doesn’t > collect taxes, and then you’ll have that much more money to donate to your favorite charitable institution. Etc.

Et tu, Dave!?

This is the same “love it or leave it” crap that one normally hears from the right. It is also a straw man, there is of course the alternative of simply staying and trying to “improve” the system. Improve is in quotes because one person’s improvements are seen by another as the ruination of the system.

-- Hop-Frog

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		Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
(...) Hey, you stinker--I've told you before that if you don't actually agree with me, you're supposed to pretend that you do. And anyway, I don't use strawman arguments--my fallacy was the false dilemma, thankyouverymuch. 8^) Anyway, I didn't quite (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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		Re: Finally some church/state mingling that I can really get behind!
(...) And what, exactly, does it do for us? If charity is performed to achieve a space in heaven, then it's a simple economic transaction designed to favor oneself with a payoff disproportionate to the act of charity. (...) On the contrary--public (...) (21 years ago, 13-Aug-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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