| Not a member yet? Register for FREE! |
| ||||||
| Religion, Philosophy, Sociology and Ethics Discussion & debates of different Religions and philosophies. Please try to remain respectful. |
| JOIN TODAY! It's FREE . . . Discuss topics and issues that matter to you!
8,000 active members posting their views, facts and opinions on issues and topics that are important to people of today. Join a Discussion or better yet and Start a Discussion of your own! |
![]() |
| | Thread Tools |
| | #82 (permalink) |
| Stirrer Of Shit | |
| Eric "For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought." -Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart "How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."—Ronald Reagan http://self-composed.com | |
| | |
| | #84 (permalink) |
| Stirrer Of Shit | |
| Eric "For whoever habitually suppresses the truth in the interests of tact will produce a deformity from the womb of his thought." -Sir Basil H. Liddel-Hart "How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."—Ronald Reagan http://self-composed.com | |
| | |
| | #85 (permalink) |
| under construction | What is utopia anyway? A place where everyone is happy? What defines happiness, and should it even be the goal? IMO we should strive to -within reasonable limits- help anyone to find out what they want to do, try to do that. (As long as it is not destructive.) And i do think that providing, education, help through harder times should be part of that. You could say that asking for tax to do this would be 'robbing freedom'. (And some do) But not being able to pay for education, having to work hard(for instance, because labor is cheap) costs freedom just as much, or more. And of course, you would also say that it would lead to 'oligargy' and it does not work. Well, i believe it can work pretty reasonably. Although, for poorer countries you might actually be taxing progress. So perhaps in the case of poorer countries, where tax can only provide a drop on a glowing plate in terms of wellfare, tax should go to the basic infrastructure, and ventures to get out of poverty, which would otherwise not be attempted. I maintain that slaving the cheaper labor, and not providing free education in a rich country which can afford it pretty sounds like barbarism to me. |
| | |