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[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

What the fellow doesn't realize, he even his dopeman is profit oriented. He didn't sell that weed to make the fellow feel better...he did it to make money.

 

[jimmclrk1 10+ year member]

What the fellow doesn't realize, he even his dopeman is profit oriented. He didn't sell that weed to make the fellow feel better...he did it to make money.

Big stacks on deck, son.

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

"How can you simultaneously be libertarian and socialist? I am may not be familiar with all the variations, but libertarian echews government controls and regulations whereas socialism embraces it. Again, my knowledge of political economy is limited, and therefore it could be one of those issues where theory is not practiced."
I am a modest man of a pacifistic nature and am only a moderate libertarian.. Live and let live is my thinking, so long as youre not harming anyone else, but not to the degrees that allow for the exploitation of laborers, screwing people over for a percentage, and for felons to become stars. Call me crazy. If I or anyone else were to become a felon, it would gravely damage our ability to function in the workforce.

I believe in a system in which distribution of wealth are subject to control by the community for the purposes of increasing social and economic equality and cooperation. Everybody gets a slice of the pie.

I see capitalization *** nothing more than a desire for more, more, more, more.... I do not agree with its ways, but I will agree with you and the fact that it does provide us with all that we want to consume.

It breeds greed and further allows for one to "capitalize" on it... Sorry. Dont agree with it.

America will always be a nation of mass consumers. It will never change, though its nice to dream, what can I say.

Ill always prefer to "sail against the wind", so to speak //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif[/quote

"Fascist ethics begin ... with the acknowledgment that it is not the individual who confers a meaning upon society, but it is, instead, the existence of a human society which determines the human character of the individual. According to Fascism, a true, a great spiritual life cannot take place unless the State has risen to a position of pre-eminence in the world of man. The curtailment of liberty thus becomes justified at once, and this need of rising the State to its rightful position."

[Mario Palmieri, "The Philosophy of Fascism" 1936]

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society."

[Hillary Clinton, 1993]

The conservative believes that the individual lives for themselves while the liberal believes that the individual exists to serve society. Conservatives believe that the individual should be free to act freely and independently so long as they don't violate the rights of others; liberals believe that for the individual to act freely and independently IS a violation of the rights of others ... a violation of the basic human rights of the other members of society who somehow have developed an enforceable claim to a portion of the lives of their fellow men.

In short, conservatives, and especially libertarians, believe that the individual owns himself. The liberal believes that the individual belongs to society, an entity to be exploited for something called "the common good." The libertarian believes that the best thing a person can do in this life is to live their own life in responsible and self-sufficient manner so as not to impose a burden on others. The liberal believes that we have a duty to live our lives for the benefit of others or for society. To do anything else is to be "selfish" or "greedy."