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Sun, 10 June 2007 18:44

cheesesoda
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Bigger isn't always better. For instance, government is a good example of that. Personally, I don't see why people think that equality is better than liberty.

I would much rather be in control of my life and make life altering decisions on my own whether positive and negative, and have nobody to answer to for my actions than myself. Whether I end up a success or a failure, I want that to be my doing.

I don't want to take away from others for my own good. That's selfish. I also don't want to take from others to give to others because that's arrogant. Yeah, we all need to look outside of ourselves and help others, but not by force, and certainly not by force at the hands of our government.

If you saw gbull's old signature, you would have seen a quote from me. It basically said that we need to be responsible for our actions. We can't lay the blame on anybody else but ourselves for what we do. Our society increasingly seems to feel that if we make a mistake, the government should fix that. Wrong. All you do then is steal from everybody else because the government stepping in only makes the government spend more money which is gathered through taxes which is ultimately paid by those of us who AREN'T fuck-ups. If I want to help a fuck-up, that should be MY choice, not the choice of some ignorant 'bleeding-heart' fucktard who wants to spend my money for the 'common good'. Sorry, but I earned this money. I should be able to choose to do with it as I please. Nobody else should be able to tell me what I should be spending my money on.

I'm not saying government is bad. Government is very much needed. However, a large government becomes intrusive, and gives more power to people who are corruptible. We're human, we're all corruptible, and giving too much power to any one person or group is very very dangerous. Saddam Hussein is a prime, recent example of this. Another would obviously be Adolf Hitler, and yet another would be Joseph Stalin. These are all examples from within the past century.

Government is good, but only if the people that it's supposed to serve are still in control of it. Stealing a quote from 'V for Vendetta', "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." Name me an incredibly powerful government that didn't scare its people, and I'll change my views on big government. However, we all know there isn't one good example. Only theoretical governments.

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		What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Spoony on Sat, 02 June 2007 10:54
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Renerage on Sat, 02 June 2007 10:56
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Doitle on Sat, 02 June 2007 11:42
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Ryu on Sat, 02 June 2007 11:56
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		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: puddle_splasher on Sat, 02 June 2007 12:58
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Jecht on Sat, 02 June 2007 13:10
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: sadukar09 on Sat, 02 June 2007 13:39
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: BlueThen on Sat, 02 June 2007 13:41
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: sadukar09 on Sat, 02 June 2007 15:22
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Canadacdn on Sat, 02 June 2007 18:16
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: puddle_splasher on Sun, 03 June 2007 02:30
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: cheesesoda on Sat, 02 June 2007 18:34
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: BlueThen on Sat, 02 June 2007 18:36
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: cheesesoda on Sat, 02 June 2007 18:45
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: BlueThen on Sat, 02 June 2007 18:51
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: cheesesoda on Sat, 02 June 2007 18:54
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: BlueThen on Sat, 02 June 2007 18:57
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: cheesesoda on Sat, 02 June 2007 18:59
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: IronWarrior on Sat, 02 June 2007 22:58
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Spoony on Sun, 03 June 2007 01:57
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: sadukar09 on Sun, 03 June 2007 04:25
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: reborn on Tue, 05 June 2007 05:57
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		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Renerage on Tue, 05 June 2007 20:48
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: cheesesoda on Wed, 06 June 2007 08:27
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: luv2pb on Wed, 06 June 2007 10:26
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: BlueThen on Wed, 06 June 2007 10:30
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: sadukar09 on Wed, 06 June 2007 13:54
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: cheesesoda on Wed, 06 June 2007 11:08
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: luv2pb on Wed, 06 June 2007 12:48
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: cheesesoda on Wed, 06 June 2007 12:58
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: BlueThen on Wed, 06 June 2007 13:00
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: luv2pb on Sun, 10 June 2007 13:18
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Jonty on Wed, 06 June 2007 12:42
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Jecht on Wed, 06 June 2007 18:20
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Doitle on Sat, 09 June 2007 02:05
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: sadukar09 on Sat, 09 June 2007 04:00
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: cheesesoda on Sat, 09 June 2007 18:23
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: sadukar09 on Sun, 10 June 2007 04:36
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Doitle on Sat, 09 June 2007 23:07
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Jecht on Sun, 10 June 2007 17:53
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: cheesesoda on Sun, 10 June 2007 18:44
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: sadukar09 on Mon, 11 June 2007 12:31
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Renerage on Mon, 11 June 2007 12:50
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: sadukar09 on Mon, 11 June 2007 13:20
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Doitle on Mon, 11 June 2007 14:46
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Renerage on Mon, 11 June 2007 14:57
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: Doitle on Mon, 11 June 2007 16:19
		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: trooprm02 on Mon, 11 June 2007 17:00
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		Re: What would you do if you were your country's head of state? By: luv2pb on Tue, 12 June 2007 10:26
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