I might buy that argument a bit better if the people making it were actually making an effort to do that. But, like the ant-abortion fanatics who push for no abortions but also fight for cutting welfare, food stamps and other quality-of-life elements, these people just don't want to spend money on anything inconvenient like helping others but still want the kudos of claiming that they are.
And 'saving the planet' makes a lot of economic sense in itself - but not necessarily for the current generation.
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Better the 'weight' of RomneyHeritagecare, which at least is 'designed' to help and save people, than the ridiculous weight of an illegal, mistaken war, hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, actual torture, and a global financial meltdown for good measure.
That's what I thought at first, but on a careful re-read, most of them became obvious. The only person not specifically called out was the (presumed) photographer, Ferguson. It didn't help that some of the quoted segments were pretty confusing: "Nothing in Neri's complaint supports a claim that any of the respondents disparaged Neri's art. Accordingly, Neri has not stated a claim for trade libel."
That being said, it wasn't an easy read, and it could have been better explained. To be fair to Tim though, he was quoting Rebecca Tushnet and it was her passages that were the densest.
In the US you have some sort of 'contributory felony' statutes - for instance, if someone dies as part of a felony, all those involved can be charged with murder. So once you accept that as a principle, you can accept that PEOPLE SHOULD ACCEPT RESPONSIBILTY for their psychotic hounding/raping/whatever and pay some kind of price.
Or is it only the poor and other victims who should 'pay' and 'take responsibility'?
yes, but laws can reduce easy access to dangerous things and give additional legal sticks for DAs to use. And given the deadliness and scale of death from guns, any little help is important.
No worse than any other control freaks like most of the Republican establishment...
Any control freakery is bad, unwarranted control freakery is really bad.
And no, protecting people from harm isn't control freakery, if used with some discretion and sense. The problem is the absolutism, and too much or not enough regard for other peoples' rights.
He's obviously never read the comments sections of WND or Free Republic! If libelling a public official were a federal crime, half the Tea Party would be behind bars! (Leaving aside most of them already expect the government to any minute now put them in death camps and even worse, TAKE AWAY THEIR PENIS SUBSITUTES!)
Snowden re-programmed the flight computer to fly the plane to Benghazi, but because the 0bummer fascist state is desperate to avoid even passing mention of that world-changing debacle where four whole Americans died (under a democRAT watch!) they virused the flight computer and the resulting conflict led to all passenger phones being bricked and the plane ending up in the Southern Indian Ocean also imitating a brick.
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And 'saving the planet' makes a lot of economic sense in itself - but not necessarily for the current generation.
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Re: So the Dems have come up with another politically motivated report
Which is more designed to destroy society?
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Plus, wasn't this all started by the Christ-loving right-wingers?
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That being said, it wasn't an easy read, and it could have been better explained. To be fair to Tim though, he was quoting Rebecca Tushnet and it was her passages that were the densest.
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Or is it only the poor and other victims who should 'pay' and 'take responsibility'?
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Any control freakery is bad, unwarranted control freakery is really bad.
And no, protecting people from harm isn't control freakery, if used with some discretion and sense. The problem is the absolutism, and too much or not enough regard for other peoples' rights.
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Go troll some Yahoo Answers/Youtube comments...
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Think of the terrorist children!
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