Aloysius Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 all cultures are unique and interesting. globalization has somehow curtailed this to a certain extent, but utlimately the lack of respect for Kansas as a culture is either from living in Kansas, which means you have a grass-is-always-greener kind of attitude, looking out towards the exotic "other", or else you're a partisanly biased person from somewhere else who has made a pre-judgment against Kansas and were never open minded to the differences in their culture being interesting, unique, and valuable. the most exotic place you can think of, with the strangest pracitces, the most unique rituals, the most obscure differences.... to the person who grew up there, it's all mundane and normal, and the practices of the people of Kansas are the stangest thing in the world to them. in other news, two simultenous events are not simultaneous if two observers are in relative motion, and energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Innocent Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 [quote name='Jesus_lol' timestamp='1338615198' post='2439840'] you are making me feel practically ancient now and im 23 [/quote] I always thought you were closer to thirty than to twenty. Your posts make you look more mature than your age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groo the Wanderer Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 [quote name='PadrePioOfPietrelcino' timestamp='1338622425' post='2439852'] I love how threads almost always turn into something the original poster never intended... [/quote] and now for llamas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tab'le De'Bah-Rye Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 ¤ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus_lol Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 [quote name='Innocent' timestamp='1338638991' post='2439867'] I always thought you were closer to thirty than to twenty. Your posts make you look more mature than your age. [/quote] well thats the first i've heard that said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizz_loves_jesus Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Yeah this is sort of what happens when you let the taxpayers into your health care... you give them the right to tell you what to do with your body :/ This is awful. Land of the free indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesus_lol Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 health care? last i checked this was just on Bloomberg's plate, has nothing to do with government run health care. I can still buy slushies in cups 2 times the size of a human stomach here in "commie" health care canada. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rizz_loves_jesus Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Well the main reason liberals support this is because they say that, since an overweight person is more likely to use tax payer money to pay for medical treatment resulting from their condition, taxpayers should get to have a say in what said overweight people do with their bodies. That's the response I got from liberals, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardillacid Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 [quote name='rizz_loves_jesus' timestamp='1338697123' post='2440152'] Well the main reason liberals support this is because they say that, since an overweight person is more likely to use tax payer money to pay for medical treatment resulting from their condition, taxpayers should get to have a say in what said overweight people do with their bodies. That's the response I got from liberals, anyway. [/quote]I agree with them. If we have to have universal health care, there should be an extra tax on fat people, people who smoke, chew, and use tobacco products, people who don't exercise. There's no reason I should have to pay for these people's self-inflicted health crises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardillacid Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." –C.S. Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anomaly Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 [quote name='ardillacid' timestamp='1338697360' post='2440153'] I agree with them. If we have to have universal health care, there should be an extra tax on fat people, people who smoke, chew, and use tobacco products, people who don't exercise. There's no reason I should have to pay for these people's self-inflicted health crises. [/quote]Moar gumbermint will outlaw those bad habits. The gumbermint will tell us to live as healthy, moral, productive members of society carrying our fair share of our societal responsibility and avoiding undue burden on our comrades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 [quote name='ardillacid' timestamp='1338761833' post='2440335'] "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences." –C.S. Lewis [/quote] He totally ripped off Kant. "[i]paternalistic government[/i], where the subjects, as minors, cannot decide what is truly beneficial or detrimental to them, but are obliged to wait passively for the head of state to judge how they [i]ought[/i] to be happy...would be the greatest conceivable [i]despotism[/i]" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardillacid Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 [quote name='Hasan' timestamp='1338762545' post='2440339'] He totally ripped off Kant. "[i]paternalistic government[/i], where the subjects, as minors, cannot decide what is truly beneficial or detrimental to them, but are obliged to wait passively for the head of state to judge how they [i]ought[/i] to be happy...would be the greatest conceivable [i]despotism[/i]" [/quote]You probably think Newton ripped off Leibniz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ardillacid Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 [quote name='Anomaly' timestamp='1338762324' post='2440338'] Moar gumbermint will outlaw those bad habits. The gumbermint will tell us to live as healthy, moral, productive members of society carrying our fair share of our societal responsibility and avoiding undue burden on our comrades. [/quote]I'm not saying I want universal health care, but if we are going to have it forced on us then I don't see why I shouldn't push for other people to get their poo in a pile. I don't want to pay for your bad life choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4588686 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 [quote name='ardillacid' timestamp='1338762727' post='2440342'] You probably think Newton ripped off Leibniz [/quote] It's rare that you see a good retort that's based on the history of math. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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