MontanaHatchet said:
Kasz216 said:
MontanaHatchet said:
Kasz216 said:
MontanaHatchet said:
mrstickball said:
I find it ironic that MontanaHatchet says that Slimebeast is selfish when he's telling us that he can't provide for his relatives due to high taxation.
I really don't see how you, Montana, or anyone, could think that wanting to help relatives is a selfish thing, and shame on you, Montana, for saying that. |
I don't like it because it's a similar attitude I've seem from Mafoo. That is, that someone's time holds some kind of great importance. If time was of great importance, none of us would ever play videogames. In fact, we'd spend every waking hour working and we wouldn't have much of a need for anything else than a bed to sleep in.
And shame on you for a lot of the things you've said or done on the forum. I won't name them, but you know what they are as much as anyone else.
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It's not time. It's the freedom to spend ones time how they would like.
When I "waste" my time playing videogames it's my choice and there is value in that. I'm doing something I enjoy for leisure.
If you don't think is important and your own time is important.... think about how you feel when your waiting in line at a long line... and your stuck behind an old lady counting pennies, or writing a check, or something happens at a fast food place that takes longer then it should etc.
Sometimes you'll get absolutely pissed off about that stuff... and that's less then a half hour of your time.
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Yes, but the difference between leisure time and work time is important here. If someone takes up your free time, it's not a big deal. You weren't doing anything in that time that was all that important to your life (except possibly retaining your own sanity). If someone was taking time from you and you were going to spend that time working, that's another thing.
Point is, life is short, time isn't that important, and people should just shutup.
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Isn't that exactly what's being taken? Your time working that your paid for?
Besides... i completely disagree.
Time is infinitly important. Time is all our lives really are. Our free time... unless you have an awesome job you enjoy (most don't) is infact all one has to define themselves and to lives ones life. It's your time to live. Your free time more or less is your life.]
If you have to work longer because more of your money is taken away... you lose free time that you use in defining your life.
If someone wants to define their life as "plays lots of videogames" is that really wasting ones life?
Is that actually inherently worse then something else you could be doing with your free time?
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For something that is infinitely important, it is squandered to an almost infinite degree. Humans have an infinitely important gift (life), but it won't even matter after you're dead. If you don't believe in an afterlife, there is no real value to your life. Once you're dead, nothing you did in your life will matter. At least not to you. You'll be a corpse in the ground. And if you do believe in an afterlife, you could spend your whole life praying in a chapel and get in all the same. So life is infinitely important while you're alive, but it only lasts so long.
I really don't want to get into a philosophical argument here, but one's life is ultimately unimportant to them in the end.
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1) For atheists that only applies if you are a Nihilist. Which most atheists aren't. For most living your life is important in general.
2) For people with religion... life shapes you. If it wasn't for life... and everyone was raised and born instantly in the afterlife, no personalities would evolve because everyone would live the same. What one does in their life shapes who they will be in their afterlife... and in some cases where they will go. (And in others, what life they will live again)
3) There is no such thing as wasting your life.
4) The people being taxed are alive while they're being taxed.
