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Old 05-14-2011, 08:17 AM
 
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I suggest you submit a better example.

If you are the only doctor on a deserted island and choose not to provide your services unless you are given something in return (extra food, etc) I guarantee you quite a few of the other 99 people on said island are going to kill you, roast you over an open pit and eat you.

Do not assume that people's humanity remains intact under duress. History has shown the depravity that people are capable of under desperate circumstances.
The fact that quite a few of the 99 people on the island, chooses to kill and roast the only doctor on the island, shows how stupid humans can be. Do you really need this explained to you
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Old 05-14-2011, 10:42 AM
 
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I suggest you submit a better example.

If you are the only doctor on a deserted island and choose not to provide your services unless you are given something in return (extra food, etc) I guarantee you quite a few of the other 99 people on said island are going to kill you, roast you over an open pit and eat you.

Do not assume that people's humanity remains intact under duress. History has shown the depravity that people are capable of under desperate circumstances.

You just proved my example perfectly! Yes! Absolutely, some of them will kill you and eat you! When the entitled can't cannibalize your mind or your labor they will kill you, and some of them will eat you- like cannibals do. The South cannibalized the labor of the slaves and when they were no longer allowed to do it they wanted the people they had enslaved dead, gone, hanging from a tree. The individual fighting not to be consumed by those who think they are entitled to consume him. History in a nutshell.
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Old 05-14-2011, 10:42 AM
 
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The fact that quite a few of the 99 people on the island, chooses to kill and roast the only doctor on the island, shows how stupid humans can be. Do you really need this explained to you
Well perhaps that would be an example of liberalism at work. They'd be no better off than before roasting the doctor, but they might feel better.

It wouldn't exactly be great advertisement for them tpo encourage another doctor to move there, or for one of the 99 survivors to learn medicine.
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Old 05-14-2011, 11:07 AM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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The fact that quite a few of the 99 people on the island, chooses to kill and roast the only doctor on the island, shows how stupid humans can be. Do you really need this explained to you

No.

Depravity and stupidity often go hand in hand.
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Old 05-14-2011, 11:21 AM
 
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Well perhaps that would be an example of liberalism at work. They'd be no better off than before roasting the doctor, but they might feel better.

It wouldn't exactly be great advertisement for them tpo encourage another doctor to move there, or for one of the 99 survivors to learn medicine.
I don't think it is a matter of liberalism or any other ideology at work. I was only pointing out some aspects of human behavior.

But you are right about them not being better off than before yet feeling better about the whole thing. Some people will take that route every time.
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Old 05-15-2011, 06:13 PM
 
Location: Columbia, SC
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nooo noo noo.. gasoline is now a right.. We expect the government to give it to us..
Only the people who are asking the government to take action to lower the price of gasoline at the pump.

Either they want more government or not. You can't have it both ways.
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Old 08-30-2011, 11:20 PM
 
Location: At the center of the universe!
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The tea baggers have their heads so far up their a**es they can taste their breakfast from last year.
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Old 08-30-2011, 11:22 PM
 
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Yes healthcare is not a "right" now keep telling that to the Seniors when the GOP wants to get rid of their Medicare!
The Republican Model for America: Let's F*** over the middle class and the poor people so we can protect those rich millionaires and billionaires.

How does this create jobs exactly?
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Old 08-30-2011, 11:27 PM
 
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The VAST majority of hospitals in this country accept federal funds, e.g. Medicare, Medicaid, Hill-Burton, Tri-Care, etc.
Yeah I think it's funny that Republicans and tea baggers always preach small government but then they want to ban abortion. They want to take away a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body aka big government.

The only time Republicans are for small government is when they want to screw over the poor people to help the rich people.
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Old 08-31-2011, 06:29 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Yeah I think it's funny that Republicans and tea baggers always preach small government but then they want to ban abortion. They want to take away a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body aka big government.

The only time Republicans are for small government is when they want to screw over the poor people to help the rich people.


This is where you have failed!

Roe v Wade, says no one can ban abortions, not even a congressional law.

Government funded abortion, using my tax dollars is not acceptable.
Privately paid for abortions, are no problem what so ever.
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