Re: Distribution & Redistribution

From: The Trucker (mikcob_at_verizon.net)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 10:43:41 -0800

jmhall@apex.home.net wrote:

> "robert j. kolker" <nowhere@nowhere.net> writes:
>
>> Ron Allen wrote:
>> > Ron Allen answers:
>> > This is your opinion, and nothing more. I have a
>> > different opinion, and can offer nothing more than
>> > that.
>>
>> Look at your daily newspaper. Study history. It is NOT opinion. Humans
>> are constitutionally a nasty lot. We have a few good moments now and
>> again.
>
> It's fairly well know, I thought, that newspapers don't
> report the good stories and the happy endings very well.
> Newspapers are not representative samples of the
> battle between good and evil (if one uses that metaphor).
>
> I think if one take a look at history from a progress
> of mankind standpoint it not all that bad--we really
> do have a case where the good tends to overcome the
> bad in what we do and are.
>
>> > I believe that evil endures because human beings
>> > are not free enough to fully exercise their moral
>> > freedom, or to freely actualize their best virtues
>> > and their better qualities.
>>
>> Evil endures because it is in our nature to be evil. We cannot fight
>> who and what we are. We are a nasty species of ape that is also
>> capable of reasoning now and again. We are the Smartest Baddest Apes
>> in the Monkey House.
>
> So why aren't we constantly at war with one another or
> all living under totalitarian goverments?

Because the Bush regime has not been in power long enough to get
this job done. He is moving as fast as he can, but the intelligent
people have not all been forced into 80 hour work weeks yet and they
still have some time to get on the net and debate real issues.

> How did we every
> manage to reach the point where we are if we're all
> no nasty and brutish?

We escaped to the New World. But Bush and company are quite
rapidly returning us to rule by aristocracy. "I have the most
weapons so I rule the world". "And, BTW, God is on my side". 

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