Throckmorton
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- Aug 23, 2007
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Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Amused, you know oil companies get government subsidies, right? And you know they drill federal land, right? Any strawman argument about "freedom" and "controlling other people" is moot, when we all give tax money and public owned resources to the oil industry to indirect subsidize your fuel use-- even with today's high prices you aren't paying the real cost.
This is all irrelevant anyway. High prices due to increased demand = declining sales of inefficient vehicles. What else do you want/expect, and what does that have to do with freedom?
Good GAWD you missed the point completely. You are blinded by your own hypocrisy.
Arguing with you isn't worthwhile when all you do is fall back on "you don't understand". Your argument boils down to "mind your own business and don't tell me what to do", and you follow that with one non sequiter after another. Why don't you go ahead and explain what exactly you mean? I've never seen anyone so upset over people judging one another. Is your dream for everyone to join hands and sing cumbaya while having gay sex in a Ford Excursion with seats made of fetus skin?
Again, you cannot see past your own hypocrisy. You are just as fascist as the right wingers, only you have your own justification for moralizing and wishing to control the actions of others.
You poo-poo at their justifications while using the same damn justifications for your own busybody moralizing.
Where did you read that I want to control the actions of others? There's a difference between wanting people to act properly, and wanting to control them.
Really? So you would never enter a thread started by a fundie telling people who, when and how they may have sex and bash them? You would never protest to someone saying media must be censored to protect the people?
They use the same justifications as you do for your busybody moralizing. And you know damn well if you could get laws passed forcing people to "act properly" (according to your own morals) you would. To deny it now is simply absurd. Not after your previous defense of personal safety laws.
Face it. You are a fundie with a different cause. You're no different. Not one fscking bit. You just have a separate set of behaviors you demand people comply with. You think you know better than others how they should "act properly" and you run around not only preaching your gospel, but supporting laws that force them to "act properly."
Of course I would enter such a thread and argue. But if gay sex became prohibitively expensive, I wouldn't blame them and say "you wanted this all along". I'd either pay more for the gay sex or stop having it, if I were gay.
Seat belt laws and the like affect people other than the driver, like other motorists, ER doctors, etc... And are regulated by the same bodies that construct the roads. You're still free to not wear a seatbelt and drive a non street-legal vehicle on your own private roads.