If you connect socialism and feudalism you automatically fail political philosophy FOREVER. FOREEEEEVER. So, I mean, addressing the points of his argument is just unnecessary, but you do a good job of it anyways. Very concise. I want to print it on a little card and hand it out to people on the street.
Now, I still disagree, but I am resigned in that disagreement, because it's a disagreement that pales in comparison to my pleasure that real life problems of increasing urgency are being addressed. I think it can make improvements in a lot of people's lives, including mine and my loved one's. I think in some ways it is still going to be more of the same, just with fresh thumbscrews. Thus, I experience resignation. I clap politely, sigh slightly, read more about the issue than a lot of the frothing screamers and move on with my life.
Corporations and government controlled programs both fail, they just fail in different ways and I would say the will of the people is actually more likely to be respected by a government controlled program than a corporation. It just, uh, depends on which people's will we listen to, because no solution to a problem offered by a select group is going to address the will of every individual. HOWEVER: The current system is totally broken and does not respect the needs or wishes of people as individuals at freaking all! To ignore that would be sheer lunacy. So, even if I don't like this, there's times when you just have to look hard at a situation and say, "There is clearly a lesser evil here, or at least something that is trying its damnedest to be the (significantly) lesser evil."
Wow, I have kept my inner feelings on this pretty much inside. You are the first person to make me write it all out.
eta: Up until this point I've just looked people straight in the face and said, "We already have that. It's called Medicare. Don't be ign'ant." Because HOLY CRAP PEOPLE. GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS EXIST. YOU BENEFIT FROM THEM. SHUT UP, OMG, SHUT UP. NOAA AND OSHA ARE NOT DRAGGING US BACK TO THE EARLY IRON AGE, YOU IRRATIONAL CUSSES.
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Date: 2010-03-24 07:48 pm (UTC)From:Now, I still disagree, but I am resigned in that disagreement, because it's a disagreement that pales in comparison to my pleasure that real life problems of increasing urgency are being addressed. I think it can make improvements in a lot of people's lives, including mine and my loved one's. I think in some ways it is still going to be more of the same, just with fresh thumbscrews. Thus, I experience resignation. I clap politely, sigh slightly, read more about the issue than a lot of the frothing screamers and move on with my life.
Corporations and government controlled programs both fail, they just fail in different ways and I would say the will of the people is actually more likely to be respected by a government controlled program than a corporation. It just, uh, depends on which people's will we listen to, because no solution to a problem offered by a select group is going to address the will of every individual. HOWEVER: The current system is totally broken and does not respect the needs or wishes of people as individuals at freaking all! To ignore that would be sheer lunacy. So, even if I don't like this, there's times when you just have to look hard at a situation and say, "There is clearly a lesser evil here, or at least something that is trying its damnedest to be the (significantly) lesser evil."
Wow, I have kept my inner feelings on this pretty much inside. You are the first person to make me write it all out.
eta: Up until this point I've just looked people straight in the face and said, "We already have that. It's called Medicare. Don't be ign'ant." Because HOLY CRAP PEOPLE. GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS EXIST. YOU BENEFIT FROM THEM. SHUT UP, OMG, SHUT UP. NOAA AND OSHA ARE NOT DRAGGING US BACK TO THE EARLY IRON AGE, YOU IRRATIONAL CUSSES.