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akuma587 said: Nicely put. I don't think sleep deprivation and starvation are inherently wrong as long as they are done reasonably. If we are keeping someone up for a week straight, that's way too much. If we aren't feeding them for days at a time, that is too much. I don't understand how people can complain about big government but have no problem with the government doing all kinds of unspeakable things in backrooms in our country. Big government that can throw you in a box and take away the key is the type of big government you should genuinely be afraid of. You may not agree when the government grows in size, but at least it isn't going to strap you do a wooden horse and do all kinds of unspeakable things to you while playing re-runs of Green Acres. |
What an interesting insight into your psyche. I honestly think you may eventually come around to my way of thinking, as much as it abhors you now. As you grow older, you’ll lose some heart and gain some brain. Unless Winston Churchill was a liar.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
