Posted on 09/28/2001 7:45:14 AM PDT by sendtoscott
Conservatives are fond of preaching the importance of taking "individual responsibility" for one's actions and beliefs. But when you ask them whether they're willing to take responsibility for the robberies and muggings that their beloved decades-long war on drugs have produced, they always and inevitably respond with, "Oh, no. We don't intend our policies to result in those things and therefore we're not responsible for them. Only robbers and muggers, with their lack of respect for liberty and private property, are responsible for their actions and beliefs."
Today, when you ask conservatives whether they're willing to take responsibility for their beloved decades-long foreign-aid program and interventionist foreign policy that have produced so much enmity, hatred, and perverse consequences for our country, their response is, not surprisingly, the same: "Oh, no. We don't intend our policies to result in those things and therefore we're not responsible for them. Only terrorists, with their lack of respect for liberty and private property, are responsible for their actions."
Question for conservatives: With respect to welfare programs, do you still feel that good intentions don't matter and that advocates of the decades-long war on poverty should take responsibility for its destructive consequences, or do you now feel that only the food-stamp mother in the grocery-store line is responsible for her actions and beliefs?
Well said, worthy of repeating.
I would also add that conservatives have a much keener sense of the reality of the nature of humans, that we are bent on self-destruction. We also understand that the vast majority of laws address this fact, hence, laws such as murder, theft, speeding, drug control, etc. Clearly conservatives are far more wiser and mature than libertarians.
Libertarians, on the other hand, in pursuit of a their own selfish agendas, decry any restraint on their endeavors, failing or refusing to see the ultimate outcome: anarchy. Libertarians are only able to see up to their fingertips, whereas conservatives see the "big picture." Because of that, conservatives are and make better public servants than do libertarians.
Think Jacob Hornberger is mixing up his fruit bowl. . .
Would just want to back up and ask Jacob and every other Liberal who holds to this argument that 'America deserved this. . .or asked 'for it'; by 'virtue' of our foreign policies; just what do you mean?
If 'Western Civilization' walks in 'western shoes and dress' that may not be soooo bad, given the alternatives perhaps, of life in some parts of the world. . .and McDonald's does not create starving refugees.
Of course, Liberals do not say specifically what our sins are, or if they include as well, that of saving Muslims all over the planet and feeding those starving ones as well. . .and relocating many in our cities and towns across America. . .sending money to their families 'back home'. . .but maybe in time, the Liberals will address these sins of ours. . .allowing for the 'imperfect' of course.
In addition to their supposed justification of hate for America, what might the justification be for these people, hating their own countrymen. . .why are they practicing the worst atrocities of ethnic cleansing? Religious 'cleansing'?
Why are these 'spiritual' people, going around the world killing, maiming those who have had NOTHING to do with them? Why in the twenty-first century, are they insisting that EVERYone share their world of the first millenium? We HAVE BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. . .
Do think Liberals prefer to stay on this tack of our foreign policy being responsible. They surely do not want to look at the 'red flag's' that their own Liberalism has waved, which gave these zealots another manufactured 'justification' to hate and kill and destroy our country of 'infidels'.
But why nitpik over Welfare? Jacob is a little 'sensitive', over-reactive, perhaps; but a classic Liberal fellow who just does not 'get it'.
Please provide documentation of how much revenue California received through the production of pot.
Don't look now, but your extremism is showing again.
Think Jacob Hornberger is mixing up his fruit bowl. . .
Would just want to back up and ask Jacob and every other Liberal who holds to this argument that 'America deserved this. . .or asked 'for it'; by 'virtue' of our foreign policies; just what do you mean?
If 'Western Civilization' walks in 'western shoes and dress' that may not be soooo bad, given the alternatives perhaps, of life in some parts of the world. . .and McDonald's does not create starving refugees.
Of course, Liberals do not say specifically what our sins are, or if they include as well, that of saving Muslims all over the planet and feeding those starving ones as well. . .and relocating many in our cities and towns across America. . .sending money to their families 'back home'. . .but maybe in time, the Liberals will address these sins of ours. . .allowing for the 'imperfect' of course.
In addition to their supposed justification of hate for America, what might the justification be for these people, hating their own countrymen. . .why are they practicing the worst atrocities of ethnic cleansing? Religious 'cleansing'?
Why are these 'spiritual' people, going around the world killing, maiming those who have had NOTHING to do with them? Why in the twenty-first century, are they insisting that EVERYone share THEIR world of the first millenium? We HAVE BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. . .
Do think Liberals prefer to stay on this tack of our foreign policy being responsible. They surely do not want to look at the 'red flag's' that their own Liberalism has waved, which gave these zealots another manufactured 'justification' to hate and kill and destroy our country of 'infidels'.
. . .and why nitpik over Welfare? Jacob is a little 'sensitive', over-reactive, perhaps; but a classic 'Liberal' fellow .
I'm reporting you to Dick Gephardt and Tom Dashole so they can collect royalties for your use of their rhetoric.
Could it be that they grew hemp (if they actually did) in order to make baskets and other useful materials, instead of smoking it like you drugheads allege?
Well said!
Oh, I don't know. If the drug users stopped using drugs, that would do it.
"Perhaps" is a hard word to nail down, don't you think?
Your ignorance is beyond spectacular. What's worse is that you actually boast your ignorance.
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