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your example has nothing to do with the reasoning behind the crime, but is a matter of intent. intending to do someone harm is a far worse crime than that same harm unintentionally inflicted, though the results may be the same. do we consider a crime of greed more heinous than one committed...

i still think it's a self-portrait

american innovation has almost always been the product of ingenuity within the private sector, not mandates from the state. for each highly publicized breakthrough at the taxpayers' expense, a thousand were spurred by competition within the marketplace.

yup, that eighteenth amendment sure was a winner. it was so popular that they followed it up with the twenty-first, though the latter was in a slightly different vein.

and i just love how liberals insist on a view of history that denies the changes in social mores. the elitists of the day were men of god given and nearly unlimited power or had their power granted them by such men. the very idea that any man who owned a spot of land could determine public...

liberalism is a dead horse being beaten for the amusement of the masses. its message has been sanitized and sanctified by the priests of public opinion. just as all counter-culture is eventually mass marketed, so too has all radicalism been bent to the will of the powerful. the changes...

i have no horse in this race. it's difficult to be considered partisan when there is no party that represents your views and, though i do appreciate certain aspects of conservatism, i abhor their increasing use of religion as a background for their ideology. my only interest is the liberty of...

c'mon now, that bit only had a tinge of lavender around the edges.:bigjoint:

you may not like the term statist because of the basic truths which it implies. the mentality that has led us to our constantly expanding welfare state is exactly what is behind every problem you've mentioned. we have given over so much of the private sector's power to government that it is...

well excuse me for lumping the socialist buffoons in with the quasi-socialist buffoons. i suppose you would like to gloss over the fact that the post in question applies all the more to your particular brand of madness. as for earned influence, what part of making worthwhile contributions to...

nearly every word in your post reeks of envy. should a wage slave who puts in his eight and goes home to relax be afforded the means to acquire luxury cars, weekends at the spa and grand vacations or are those the things that are earned through extra effort and responsibility? all that is...

your first mistake is the assumption that i am against assisting the poor. just how many times in this thread alone have i stated that it is the abuse and scope of the system that i find fault with? your second error is in assuming i have no problem with "corporate welfare". the very idea...

as the cost of supplying a better life to everyone causes the economies of the west to come crashing down, the shortsightedness of those progressive programs becomes more and more apparent. that the growth and well-being of european welfare states was inextricably linked to and dependent upon...

what is most depressing about all of you statist dupes is that you simply cannot see the charity within human nature. you greet each instance of greed and deception with the greatest glee, but completely ignore the sacrifices that people make every day for the sake of others. you see only the...

there, you've said it yourself. the programs themselves help to create the demand. while no one expects the world to go on spinning without some form of assistance for those in need and it is proper that government have some hand in those programs, the lengths we have gone to in order to try...

what is it society needs from its government? do we need an extensive welfare system, spurred on by the entitlement mentality that it fosters? do we need more than the most basic regulation of the private sector? do we need mandates that interfere with the rights of the individual any more...

no matter how you may try to twist it, you simply can't turn the tea party folks into the sort of rabid statists that use the flaws of democracy to build an ever more massive welfare state. while any rally can be seen as a mob, the difference in the messages between the tea party and the...

so let me break this down for y'all. social democrats merely wish to ignore the freedoms of the individual in order to support the fallacies of social equality. unbridled democracy, otherwise known as mob rule, operates solely on the theory of might makes right. it protects only those who...

no, what they mean is take all their shit and give it to the government. those super-rich assholes everyone keeps complaining about already give billions back to their communities and they do it willingly, it's called charity and it's something the wealthy and conservatives in general know a...

speak for yourself. i'm hiding in your monitor right now, watching every keystroke with silent glee. yes, i noticed you scratching yourself just then and i know why your mouse buttons are sticky on thursdays. :bigjoint: