sieanr said:
Kasz216 said:
txrattlesnake said:
Kasz216 said:
txrattlesnake said:
TheRealMafoo said:
akuma587 said:
TheRealMafoo said:
akuma587 said:
I don't feel bad about downloading movies because I go see them in the theater pretty often.
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So as long as you buy most of your food, stealing the rest is OK?
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Since when did you become the morality police? I seem to recall you claiming waterboarding was alright.
I don't care if it is stealing. I'm going to continue to do it. You know why? Because studios completely half ass their DVD releases in the first place. They don't put any kind of thought into the packaging. It is usually little more than a piece of plastic. The only thing of value they even give me is the disc itself. I don't like paying money to feel like I am getting ripped off. In this day and age, I could just DVR the movies and put them onto a disc later. But I guess that doesn't count.
Now you want to talk about a film company that actually puts work into their releases that I am willing to buy, you can talk about Criterion. They don't half ass their stuff and make me feel like I am paying them to slack off. I still regularly buy stuff from them.
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You are going into a profession to practice law when you clearly have no use for it.
Your premise, is it’s ok to break a law if the lawbreaker feels justified.
Why have laws?
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It's what HD Thoreau taught, and he is still taught in college lit courses as one of the most important American thinkers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(Thoreau
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That is a great injustice to Thoreau.
Civil Disobedience is only to be used in a case of extreme injustice.
Not. "I don't like this law so i'm going to ignore it."
It's "This law is fundamentally wrong."
Besides I can't see Akuma being a big Thoreau guy. Afterall his motto was something akin to
"The best government is one that governs the least."
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Yeah, but I've read a lot of your posts and you always seem to be defending the conservative viewpoint (which actually despite it s anti-big governement stance does seek to govern quite a bit. ie. many of its tenets are shaped by Christian philosophies which seek to interfere in everybody's lives that don't follow Christian teachings.
The best government according to Thoreau's statement would actually be an anarchical society which flies in the face of the notion of Republican / Conservative / Christian right wing religious fundamentalism.
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I don't actually agree with most conservative viewpoints. They're just better then the liberal options presented... because the republicans basically offer a lack of a system.
A system once in place is impossible to get rid of.
So i'll always favor no system to a bad system.
Things like universal healthcare should be achieved. But they have to be achieved the right way or everyone will be worse off for it.
A nearly anarichal society probably would be best. It goes back to the old saying "The right of one man to extend his fist ends at another man's nose."
Though I admit I would also like a system in which the poor are given everything they need for survival.
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Then you must not know a lot about conservative valures.
If you want to only acknowledge modern day neo cons, then yes, conservative values are mostly pro small government. But outside of that here is still a considerable big government world view. Reagan went through with plent of big government programs, the original Neocons from the 60s advocated going further than the new deal programms, and often sympathized with socialist.
And hell, people like Carter deregulated industries left and right.
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Neocons aren't conservatives. They're Neo conservatives. Reagan was a Neo conservative. People like Nixon were liberals.
Libritarians are the people I talk about when I talk about conservatives.
