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To: Cubs Fan
we saw that attitude in the Michael Brown video where he goes into a shop and takes “what’s his” and throws the elderly owner out of the way.
See, that’s the thing - he “didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” </sarcasm>
It is certainly true, of course, that nobody does anything alone; society helps, encourages, rewards. But society is not the same thing as government:
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil . . . - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776) 

If government rewards the promotion of looting, owners of stores will suffer first - but society generally will also suffer for the want of anyone willing to exercise initiative to supply its wants, when such initiative is not reliably rewarded.

13 posted on 08/21/2014 11:59:39 PM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion ("Liberalism” is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

BINGO!!! Obama’s “You didn’t build that” and all this talk about leveling out the playing field makes these blacks think they are OWED something.


36 posted on 08/22/2014 3:34:26 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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