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Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
To me, we are all created with equal potential, even though some choose not to fulfill this potential, its a personal choice.
Originally posted by full997
I am not a proponant of the NWO or of a one world government but what would be so bad about having one government ruling the entire world as long as that government was democratically elected by the whole world.
Just imagine if there was only on government then who would that government pick its fights with? if there is no USA to fight Russia and no Iranian government to fight the Israel government then there would be less trouble in the world.
Imagine three global political parties, a world wide election every five years to elect a singular government to govern the entire world.
Originally posted by Darkerside
Finally a more truthful look at the world
Originally posted by Darkerside
let me tell you, you havent seen anything yet, you havent seen me.
Originally posted by NovusOrdoMundi
I'm sick of people's tax dollars going to pay for the hopeless individuals that take more out of society than they put back in. Thats what creates classes in our society. If everyone put more in to society than they took out, we truly would all be the same.
Agreed, we are all different and this makes interactions with each other in large groups very difficult, but IMO we are still very immature in the grand scope if things and I believe we could grow to make these ideas work, but as I mentioned before, I doubt this will happen in this lifetime.
Selfishness is not a perfect trait in humans. If Bill Gates wants to shoot his own business and let competitors in by producing a poor product that is his right, a stupid decision and one that does not make sense, but his right to do so. Why a businessman would hurt his product's reputation is beyond me? If that were the case, and he was making a shoddy product then the market will eventually punish him, by loosing market share to the company that could produce the better operating system, ie Linux, Apple OS..etc I can think of no better punishment for said businessmen then the trashing of his reputation and the removal of his common stock from NYSE, not to mention the numerous lawsuits faced for fraud, from Intel or various other hardware manufacturers and or computer owners.
Possibly, at the moment this dynamic does encourage growth, but it also encourages greed, which as we have seen, can slow the progress of a species to a halt.(I'm not even gonna get started on suppressed technologies etc.) I've heard Bill Gates builds his OS with bugs, so later he can release patches to fix them and charge for them. What if pentium 4 was discovered after a breakthrough on pentium 1? You think they would have released it as pentium 2? or build the stages in between and sell them first? I'm going for the latter and that only hinders the growth.
I would never thank that man for Vista, the stress I had with that OS, looks great, handles terribly. lol
I think "selfishness" in its purest form exists in the annimal kingdom. I don't see the Lion respecting the rights of the gazelle to live, a Lion would definitely kill another Lion if it stumbled anywhere near its territory, nor do I see the Lion picking up after himself, nor respecting the environment. You see now we are talking about property rights, again animals lack this ability, this is what makes us the superior creature which inhabit this planet, because we are able to choose not to kill, not to pollute, not to act like animals, because we have property rights. Particularly property rights of the individual to not have his property polluted on or to be threaten by others. Take Stalin and the Millions he killed, and the numerous people who starved, or the massive amount of degradation and pollution to the environment he inflicted, simply because property right did not belong to anyone, but the STATE. So when someone kills and bombs my country, say Iraq; thus property rights are not being respected by the State. Here is a perfect example of the Strong vs the Weak, it is not something which coincides with respect for property rights nor individual rights. The same goes for Polluters who dump their garbage in our rivers, they are and should be held responsible.
I think people are mixing up survival of the fittest, with greed and a hunger for power. Plants and animals may kill each other for land and food, but this is not for power, but for survival, they dont kill because they want more food, they kill because they need it, there is a huge difference. We kill for power, for money, or ideals and you cannot justify this with a simple "it's nature" because it really isn't, it's barbaric. It is not the direction we should be taking, but we will only know for sure, until it's taken. Are we really discussing whether its good or bad to dominate the weak and elevate the bully's into power? I didn't see this coming... EMM
Originally posted by NovusOrdoMundi
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
To me, we are all created with equal potential, even though some choose not to fulfill this potential, its a personal choice.
Its a personal choice that hurts others.
We're all created with equal potential to decide to not drink and drive, and even though some choose not to fulfill this potential and do drink and drive, its a personal choice.
Does that sound right to you? It shouldn't. It being a personal choice does not make it right or justify it.
The worthless amongst us need to either be cured or banished to a manufactured society where they are all watched and controlled until they are capable of taking care of themselves. Or, dare I say it, left to die.
You people can put what ever label you want on my beliefs, but they are legitimate. A society that has more being taken from it than is being put in to it is doomed to failure.
To me, a human that cannot take care of their own life no longer is worthy of life, or at the very least a free life.
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
How about fat people?
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
old people driving, should a licence be revoked after a certain age due to the danger they 'could' pose
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
mentally instable? lock them up and throw away the key too?
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
you say they are selfish, I say you are selfish, you worry about your well being and blame your situation on others.
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
i'd rather help someone in need than throw them away in a deep dark hole
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
The problem is that the people who govern the society, the people in power who have the ability to make any difference are the one's that are taking from the society
Originally posted by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
The problem is that the people who govern the society, the people in power who have the ability to make any difference are the one's that are taking from the society, yea sure couple of million a year go on homeless, couple more on health issues, drink induced, drug induced, weight induced, maybe a bit more dealing with crime, well, add all that up and times it by whatever you want and you still wouldn't be close to the numbers are dropped here and there, 2 trillion here, 1 trillion there and this is annually, how long has this been happening? 20 years? 30 years? longer?
EMM
Originally posted by Gateway
reply to post by ElectroMagnetic Multivers
I think people are mixing up survival of the fittest, with greed and a hunger for power. Plants and animals may kill each other for land and food, but this is not for power, but for survival, they dont kill because they want more food, they kill because they need it, there is a huge difference. We kill for power, for money, or ideals and you cannot justify this with a simple "it's nature" because it really isn't, it's barbaric. It is not the direction we should be taking, but we will only know for sure, until it's taken. Are we really discussing whether its good or bad to dominate the weak and elevate the bully's into power? I didn't see this coming... EMM
I think "selfishness" in its purest form exists in the annimal kingdom. I don't see the Lion respecting the rights of the Giselle to live, a Lion would definitely kill another Lion if it stumbled anywhere near its territory, nor do I see the Lion picking up after himself, nor respecting the environment.
You see now we are talking about property rights, again animals lack this ability, this is what makes us the superior creature which inhabit this planet, because we are able to choose not to kill, not to pollute, not to act like animals, because we have property rights. Particularly property rights of the individual to not have his property polluted on or to be threaten by others. So when someone kills and bombs my country, say Iraq; thus property rights are not being respected by the State. Here is a perfect example of the Strong vs the Weak, it is not something which coincides with respect for property rights nor individual rights. The same goes for Polluters who dump their garbage in our rivers, they are and should be held responsible.
Unfortunate this whole concept of property rights goes out the window when a central government steps in, and claims that your property is that of the State's, or that the fruits of your labor are not your own. When these rights are taken away we are no longer better than the Lion or any other animal for that matter.
Originally posted by Darkerside
When i said light i meant some of the attention, i guess it was worded wrong.
Whats in it for me? - POWER, what else