I am a bitter hypocrite. There is too damned much variation in the human condition and we are too tolerant of thieves and liars.Too. Damned. Violent criminals, too. And stupid people. Jesus! at what point does a species become so prolific that it feels it can suffer the least competetive specimens of itself because it feels its success is guarandamnteed?
Listen, Humans ain’t exactly scarce. Why do we put up with shitheads rather than use them for fishbait, or why not, food. All this boo-hooing about prisoner’s rights, privacy rights, special rights…Humbug! Whatever happened to good old tormenting the round peg in the village of square holes?
And y’know what else? We need to stop whinging about “collateral damage” in wars. MoFo’s had the right idea back in the early 20th century–war should be very unpleasant for the constituency of the leadership that rocked the international boat. Betcha Iraq woulda turned out different if the locals knew how bad we were gonna make their lives if they didn’t do something about their leader (whom we installed, but trouble us not with trifles). Maybe, rather than wooing the Afghanis to be our friends and help us overthrow their oppressive (to us) leadership we should have explained: give us OBL or we carpet bomb your crummy little villages and torch your poppy fields.
And we needn’t stop at international politics–If Obama had been half the man we need him to be, there would have been congressional purges the first time someone breathed a word about opposing just to oppose. The Fox heads whose sole contribution to society is to foment dissent at the expense of verifiable truth? Fishbait.
It doesn’t matter. Can’t it be enough that there is piss in my cornflakes? Should I have to watch my cornflakes to make sure nobody pisses in them? What is it with everybody wanting to do the finger-pointy thing? How about we just don’t piss in each other’s cornflakes, or is that too much to expect? :mad:
See? this is exactly what I’m on about! What’s a saloon got to do with anything? If my saloon had burned down then presumably I wouldn’t be as drunk as if it hadn’t’ve. So really, what’s your point NotShirley? Do you support setting fire to kittens, too? Why do you hate kittens? What did kittens ever do to you? Blah, you make my temples throb. Or maybe that’s just the kickin’ sound system.
I’ve never understood the logic (or lack thereof) of the position that if we make the lives of those living under a “brutal dictotorship” (according to the ones making the argument) miserable enough, they will be incentivized to rise up and overthrow said dictator.
UMMMM, so it’s a dictatorship in which the people have NO POWER, but they will somehow be motivated to and find the means to take power from their oppressors IF we kill enough of them??? :rolleyes:
Yeah, but you do nothing about the dicktater and people bitch…you DO do something about evil dicktater and people bitch.
Personally, if we come in and take out the tater and the country still goes to shit I think thats on the people that live in that country. Now whether we SHOULD take out the tater is whole nother debate.
It’s simple math. The revolution happens when there are more oppressed than people to stop the oppressed. They aren’t taking power–by being in larger numbers, they already had it. Dictatorships are about the illusion of powerlessness.
Kill the OP while you’re at it, he’s wasting time posting on a message board instead of contributing positively to society. By my metrics, that makes him worthy of death. Off with his head!
More seriously, if we were to actually carry out the OP’s philosophy, we would extinguish our species in short order. Because everyone has different standards of “smart enough.” My religious right relatives would have all liberals and all atheists executed. Christopher Dawkins would execute my relatives. In the end all we’d have left is Stephen Hawking. And I don’t think he’s still reproductively viable.
I like our current system, where nutjob theories like this aren’t given the time of day.
:rolleyes: