[goldstategop]

John Stossel reiterates a lesson of timeless wisdom: benevolence doesn't come by confiscating someone's income in order to help someone else. You can't help another person by depriving them of their freedom. True compassion begins with limited government bounded by its proper sphere of authority. Which allows individuals to work together to help each other. That's an old truism: no bureaucracy can show compassion. Only human beings can extend that to others in need of it.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Tribune7]

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[Tribune7]

Stossel is far too kind to Moore.

[mazza]

Maybe Michael Moore can show compassion by not making movies that are packed with lies so he can make millions.

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

The “Great Society” pretty much countermanded traditional help to those who needed it given freely and in good spirit from neighbors, family, Churches, and other non-govt agencies.

Now with 40+ years of metastasis we have a genuine monster on our hands......almost limitless “entitlements”

[The Pack Knight]

But why would a philosophy that was good enough to build a successful society be unsuited to sustaining that society?

It's rather obvious to me why Moore believes this. Moore clearly takes the Marxist view of history as a series of class struggles, of which capitalism is the penultimate stage prior to the communist revolution. Marx held that capitalism was a necessary precursor to the achievement of true communism. This is why he predicted that his native Germany would be the first country to experience a communist revolution, as he, and many others, viewed it as the most advanced capitalist society of its time.

Any Marxist knowledgeable about his ideology must appreciate capitalism, as Moore seems to, as a step on the road to communism. If I had any doubt as to Moore's true beliefs, they've been put to rest now.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I agree. Now if only libertarians would recognize that you have to draw some social boundaries if you want true God-given freedom. Banning things like bestiality, pedophilia, and homosexuality are no threat to real freedom. Those things violate the laws of nature and nature’s God.

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just another grape rollin down the pipe....

I would not be just a muffin’
My head all full of stuffin’
My heart all full of pain
I would dance and i’d be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain