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May 7, 2011
"Love thy neighbor" ...
... is one thing. But to imagine it is possible to love 300 million strangers if only we can extract sufficient taxes is lunacy.
The philosophists behind the French Revolution loved everyone, as did Marx and Lenin. America's founders, not so much. Besides, the government doesn't love. Rather, as our Founders recognized, governments have powers and that is all. That being the case, they decided to create a government with clearly defined and strictly limited powers. This means that there are certain things it is forbidden to do, no matter how "compassionate" its vulgar representatives. -- One Cʘsmos: Bleeding Brain Conservatism and the Human Margin
Posted by Vanderleun at May 7, 2011 10:25 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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I wrote in 2003, "Beware the compassion police."
"Compassion" is not the proper role for government. Justice is, and there is a bright line difference between the two.
Posted by: Donald Sensing at May 7, 2011 12:31 PM
Marx detested people,and especially proletariat communists, who he regularly savaged in meetings. Even Marx's friend's were afraid of him.
Lenin didn't love people, he didn't even hate people--he was a reptile. See the bug, eat the bug.
At bests, socialists are people who love humans in groups of one million and more. They do not mean well, they mean to think well of themselves, and they do.
Posted by: james wilson at May 7, 2011 8:26 PM
Socialism boils down to this: killing people, and taking their stuff, and leaving enough people to make stuff for you. And when you are finished with those people, killing them off, too.
Posted by: Jewel at May 7, 2011 10:05 PM