>>45
Here's a tissue; blot your eyes, blow your nose, and listen up.
I can't argue ethics with someone who claims that greed is a virtue. The dichotomy, like the truth, is self evident. I'll say this; the difference between good and evil lies in the amount of suffering people are forced to endure. Less suffering=good. More suffering=evil.
I
know that the US is a Capitalistic country, currently employing a poorly regulated market. The patchwork mess that constitutes this regulation is such because of the resistance to intelligent regulation put up by the deservedly nearly extinct "free market capitalists" who think that sweatshops encourage progress. I cited information to support this assertion. The LoTR
simile was added afterward, and addressed to you.
The Constitution of the United States was founded on
your philosophy? You must be pretty old. The fact is that I doubt you could name any of the philosophers who influenced the Constitution if there was a gun to your head.
Your greatest mistake is that you presume to know anything about my philosophy. I am not arguing for communism or socialism, but against your malignant, poorly informed, hypocrisy. You want the protection of a society without the responsibility. Absurd. You're just a greedy, selfish little man who doesn't have the integrity to build or live in the kind of society you claim to want, because deep down you know that you wouldn't survive. So you cower in another's, and continue to hoard all you can, endangering the security of all in a way much more dangerous than the feeding of the common poor ever could. You really wanna get personal with me? You ain't got the chops, boy. Now go re read this thread. You've been outclassed. Then go read some history.
>>46
You thought Old Toby was tobacco?