ringo writes:
I do prefer people to eat equally instead of having the freedom to starve. That is not authoritarian
I like how you frame your argument. *cough* appeal to emotionalism*cough*.
Not that I need to defend myself, but I am far from being a "Mr. Potter" or an "Ebenezer Scrooge" just because I lean conservative. My argument is that yes, an administration (imagine a global government) that insists upon control and distribution of ALL finances held by ALL private individuals in the context of feeding everybody would in fact be authoritarian. And before you all start cussing me out, I am NOT against helping the poor. I DO help many of them, more than you think or imagine. My argument centers on whether giving and providing for ALL of the people (be it a nation or a world) *should* be mandated by government (be it local, national, or global) rather than left up to individual decisions. My argument is that any mandatory system beyond taxation for basic services (which we have now) is authoritarian and SHOULD be opposed. As I said before,
Phat writes:
If any child in the world were hungry, you would consider it a sacred duty for the government (a liberal progressive one, likely eventually a global one if the antichrist spirit gets its way) to tax or utilize my assets in order to feed them.
Social Justice ringo writes:
Yes. A thousand times yes.
And you would chide me for "not doing what Jesus mandated I do".
You don't believe the man/God ever existed, yet you always roll Him out of the archives whenever you want to support your authoritarian liberal agenda! You won't get all of the votes on this one unless you keep letting enough hungry and desperate people (without background checks) into the country simply to swing the vote perpetually to your party, ideology, and "side".
See, I know where this all is going to end up.
ringo writes:
If it could be explained well... ("Y'see, Lord, I had to step on that homeless man's face because...") and if you're half as smart as you claim to be, you should be able to explain it yourself.
You have not refuted my argument that liberals are (also) authoritarians. You simply blame the conservatives for being the WRONG authority. And since none of you sense that God is real, you justify liberal authoritarianism as necessary because
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we unbelievers HAVE to do it. Our consciences demand no less.
. The problem is that "you guys" make up a little more than 50% of the population---hardly a mandate for such a "necessity".