By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
MontanaHatchet on 17 March 2009
Edit Thread
TheRealMafoo said:
MontanaHatchet said:
TheRealMafoo said:
akuma587 said:
Because the Founding Fathers were concerned about monitoring and maintaining multi-national corporations and had something as dynamic as a world economy and the NYSE to deal with.

Man, they were just completely against the government getting involved in those things. Oh wait...those things DIDNT' EVEN EXIST YET!


Are you trying to tell me that if John Adams were to come back to life, he would approve of what we are doing?

Come on Akuma, you know better than that.

Yeah, he'd probably be confused as to why black people are allowed to be in the army.

Look, I'm sick, and I'm not in the mood to get into a huge political argument. But why would you think that politicians from more than 200 years ago, with completely different issues, would know what's right now? Should the United Kingdom get rid of their idealogies and just go back to whatever the British Empire thought?

 

 

Adams never bought a slave and declined on principle to employ slave labor. I think he would be proud of how far civil rights have come.

Adams fought against the most powerful government of his time, to free him of far less than the US does today. To think he would be remotely for what's going on in the US today is to know nothing about the man.

To think somehow because it was so long ago, that his principals don't apply is extremely misguided as well.

And yet he still spoke out against blacks serving in the army. And stop assuming that you're so smart and that people who disagree with you don't know anything. If we're talking about basic principals, of course they still apply. I'm sure that Adams didn't believe in murder, and neither does the government today. Hell, neither did Moses thousands of years ago. But what you're saying is that Adams would disagree with what the government is doing today, and I say, "DUH!!!" The Founding Fathers would disagree with many things about our government because their time was incredibly different, and you are very misguided for thinking that their all holy rules are 100% relevant regardless of the times.