A lot of people will take a position, and cling to it with a death grip regardless of logic. We all hate to lose face, and it is rare for a person to say “I have lost the argument. You win.”
Capitalists, your arguments have defeated my maximum wage idea. I was wrong. What made me realize this? My high school is having a food drive. We can either donate canned food or money. Money buys 5 pounds of food per dollar.
I have 40 dollars in my wallet.
I have, and probably will, contribute nothing. My Senior Class could win the battle to defeat the other classes, but not thanks to any help I provide.
What do I plan on doing with this money? I’m going to spend it on my self. In fact, I will probably get an expensive $10 cigar and suck on that this weekend. 50 fucking people could have had a meal, but I decided to be a greedy asshole instead, suck smoke into my mouth and give money to an Evil Tobacco Corporation, probably exploiting the hard workers of Central America in the process.
I am a hypocrite. Therefore, I humbly admit defeat.
Now it’s your turn! Who will be the next to admit their line of thinking was messed up?
Hypocriscy does not always equate to proof that the expressed position is wrong. If a convicted child molestor says, “Molesting children is wrong,” we cannot point out that he has molested children, and, having demonstrated his hypocriscy, conclude that molesting children is not wrong.
Notwithstanding point 1 above, your maximum wage idea was fatally flawed.
I’d also like to retract my belief, implied but not explicitly stated, that Bricker is an Evil Man who wants to destroy all our Civil Rights. Perhaps my judgement was somewhat hasty.
I’m assuming you did something to earn that forty bucks so enjoy your cigar. The money is yours to do with what you will and no other person should be able to lay claim to it.
Jeeze, next thing you know you’ll be hiding under the covers at night with a flashlight reading Atlas Shrugged.
Well, household chores and babysitting mostly. But hey, if my father wants to pay me that its fine with me. He owns a business, so I’m sure he knows the market value of the aforementioned skills.
As a matter of fact, I was going to go borrow that book from the library, but lately IT’S BEEN CLOSED ALL THE TIME! ARGH! I wrote an angry letter to the editor for my school paper, that’ll show that lazy librarian not to shut the library down during the times that 99% of us are able to go there!
When I was a little kid, I wanted to become an activist for animal suffrage. I reasoned that since they live in our country, they are entitled to full rights as citizens, including the right to vote. Thinking back, I feel that I was wrong about this. It’s just not a practical idea.
I was wrong not to ask the receptionist precisely how long I would need to wait to see the doctor. Asking her how long and getting a vague response of it’s not too bad today was not good enough when it turned out the wait was an hour and a half.
I could have gone and done something with that hour and a half. More importantly if I had gotten good info in the first place then Mr P would have left me there and gone somewhere with P the E and I could have had an hour and half by myself with my book in airconditioned comfort.
