[MD] Down the road of mediocrity

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Case <Case at iSpots.com>:

> [Platt]
> I knew "the children" would be thrown into the argument sooner or later.
> 
> [Case]
> And you consider them irrelevant?

I wonder how any of us survived before welfare.

> [Platt]
> Parents should be held responsible for the welfare of their children.
> 
> [Case]
> And if they are not, what then? Tough luck little Janey, better luck in the
> next cycle of rebirth?

I wonder how any of us survived before welfare.

> [Platt]
> I've witnessed enough government workers on the job to know they hardly
> work, thereby cheating taxpayers.
> 
> [Case]
> Based on your case studies we should condemn everyone in public service?
> After all I see lots of people in the private sector sitting on their
> thumbs.

Not everyone, but many.  

> [Platt]
> If in principle you see no difference between firing squads and traffic
> control, I wonder about your grasp on reality.
> 
> [Case]
> I acknowledge the right of "We the People" to establish rules of social
> order. It is you who claim this is immoral.

I do not acknowledge the right of "We the People" to redistribute private income,
jail dissenters or murder those because of their race or ethnicity. 

> [Platt]
> Instant? You and Arlo love to exaggerate. If someone doesn't get instant
> medical care it's like being tossed into a gutter.
> 
> [Case]
> In another post I gave two specific examples of people I know who had to
> wait months of needed medical services. I also know people who have had to
> wait extraordinary amounts of time in ERs. You have claimed that our health
> care system is primo and that personal observations, of say public employees
> at work are sufficient grounds for condemning the whole system. I am just
> trying to follow your lead here.

I'm saying our health system is better than most foreign health
systems. The evidence is the number of people with serious illnesses who 
come to the U.S. for treatment. 

> > [Case]
> > Isn't it about time people saw through this demeaning of public service. 
> > It is an insult to every soldier, policeman, teacher, librarian, nurse, 
> > social worker and all of the excellent people who prefer to serve their 
> > fellow citizens rather than sell themselves in a private sector where 
> > money is the only Value.
> 
> [Platt]
> Soldiers, police -- can't say enough about their MOQ moral status. Pirsig
> specifically mentions their moral role. As for the rest, private sector
> works for me because of far greater efficiency, otherwise known as "bigger
> bang for a buck."
> 
> [Case]
> And yet you never waste an opportunity to declare the injustice of
> government's power to exact compliance to the barrel of a gun. These
> glimpses inside the mind of Platt always leave me with vertigo.

The true nature of government should never be covered up. The defense of freedom
from criminals, domestic and foreign, should never be demeaned. Too bad you
can't bridge paradox like the MOQ. 



 

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