(February 7, 2016 at 11:40 pm)Nymphadora Wrote:He sounds so much like a Christian, "Don't blame god. You're totally responsible for things over which you have little control and less knowledge."(February 7, 2016 at 1:58 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Any way you look at it, you still can't remove the peoples' essential roles in governing their own nations. If they can't elect the people best suited for the job of representing them, that's on them. If they can't make a democracy work, that's on them as well. To blame certain individuals in positions of power for anything is either disingenuous or misguided.
Let me put this as simply as I can. If the majority of Americans are not pleased with the way things are going, they should get off their asses and do something about it. There's not much more to it than that.
Do you live in such a country where the government is similar to the US? If the answer is no, then you could not possibly understand how things are in this country. Until you can say that you have had first hand experience in dealing with politicians who lie just to get elected, then you are absolutely ignorant of what it is that happens here in this country.
I DO vote. That doesn't mean that the person I voted for is going to get elected. So if the opponent gets elected, none of the changes my candidate wanted, will happen. None of the things that should take place, will, so your argument is crap.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.