Saw some posts earlier today about the "right", the "left", the "Nazis", the "commies", etc., and I thought I'd illustrate the whole thing more clearly:
The odd thing is that we're arguing even as we agree on the same general principles of what is "good" and what is "bad". The vast majority of us agree that freedom is good and oppression is bad. The political spectrum is not linear, but rather circular: the "extremes" end up merging into the same totalitarian crap... The danger is not whether people go "left" or "right", but rather when they descend to the bottom and cherish a "strong government"...
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Had a professor once who asked the question, "Would you rather live in total anarchy, where there is no government, no rule of law and no police force, or under totalitarian rule where the government controls everything?"
My answer was the latter, but only if I AM the government.
He didn't like that, but it was a simple way of saying, "It depends."
