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Originally Posted by AGDee
While I wouldn't call you that personally, I would say that you are completely out of touch with reality if you think that everybody who faces a life challenge does so because they are irresponsible. I would also say that you are heartless, incapable of empathy or compassion. People like you scare me because you're one step away from wanting to just put people to death because they have had a life challenge that devastated them financially. It happens to people in all walks of life. It happens to those born with a silver spoon in their mouth, to those who are well educated, to those who have worked and made a good income for longer than you've been alive, to those who bust their butts to contribute to our society, and to those who have never done anything irresponsible in their lives. It happens. It is life. As humans, we have a moral obligation to take care of each other for the betterment of society as a whole. People like you scare me because I think that, without compassion, evil prevails.
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Where did I say anything about compassion? I am very compassionate. I give heavily to several charities as well as volunteer often.
I care for the poor, which is where my economic ideologies come from. Unabated capitalism empowers and enriches the poor's life, giving them the greatest mobility possible and the best life possible. My economic considerations are far more beneficial to the poor than a statists.
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Overall, though, it's the bigness of the car that counts the most. Because when something bad happens in a really big car – accidentally speeding through the middle of a gang of unruly young people who have been taunting you in a drive-in restaurant, for instance – it happens very far away – way out at the end of your fenders. It's like a civil war in Africa; you know, it doesn't really concern you too much. - P.J. O'Rourke
Last edited by Elephant Walk; 11-04-2010 at 11:28 PM.
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