[MD] NHS? No thanks

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu>:

> [Platt]
> It is not immoral to force someone to support the police and military.
> 
> [Arlo]
> AAAHHHHH..... but you claimed taxation was destructive of liberty. It appears
> you are now recanting and saying that taxation is fine, forcing other people to
> do something is fine,... so long as it supports programs you support. 

AHHHH yourself. You ignored the fact that our police and military preserve, not
destroy, liberty. Critical thinking strikes again.

> [Platt]
> As for parks and libraries, I have no problem donating money for those purposes,
> but taxed? No.  
> 
> [Arlo]
> If you think the only valid role of society is to stave off "biological forces",
> you miss all the other wonderful things social infrastructure brings us; free
> roads, open parks, fair access to information. But you are just, again, echoing
> a return to Victorianism. Police and military ueber-power, and the unrestricted
> dominance of a capistocracy. I get that.

Government brings wonderful things? Right, like concentration camps. 

> [Platt]
> You missed the point. Insulated and tenured professors at Duke presumed the
> students guilty before a trial by jury. Again, refer to Lila if you've
> forgotten the immorality of that. As for strange tangents, everybody keeps
> telling me here that everything is related. You disagree?
> 
> [Arlo]
> I'm sorry, a lot of people, not just "insulated faculty" but many people across
> America presumed guilt before a verdict on that one. But this has nothing to do
> with the points at hand. If you are so eager to talk about the Duke case, start
> a thread. It was appalling, in my opinion, but its not the first time a crowd
> with torches has lynched someone before a fair legal proceeding.

I don't see those professors being fired for defamation like Imus. Why not?



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