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dana stevens

(17 posts)
7. Desire for Socialism...Really??
Fri Dec 16, 2011, 06:16 PM
Dec 2011

Your comment, "you hope for REAL socialism" makes no sense to me. Socialism is not all about the goodies you get from others'; you are condemning yourself to live at the mercy of others. You sell your soul for a few crumbs of so called healthcare, and a marginal living standard. What kind of person willingly sells themselves, along with all their family and countrymen, into slavery?

I really really really wish people on this site would become familiar with David Hume's "is / ought" fallacy so you will realize that what you think "ought to be" i.e. socialism, can not be gotten by an "is", i.e. what we have. It is not possible to move to an "ought from an is", so to continue down the path of absurdity is mind boggling.

This is no different than the ideology espoused by libertarians that think they can get to some hackneyed idea of a pure capitalism; It is a farce on both your parts. Ideologies can not form the way you assume them to be. They will NEVER look like you think they "ought".

Wake up and smell your fallacy........

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