(August 17, 2016 at 11:07 pm)RobertE Wrote:(August 17, 2016 at 7:58 pm)Aroura Wrote: "For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Thomas More, Utopia
Making fun of the poor people with little to no education is a dick move. They did not chose to be born into poverty, nor to be denied a proper education. Offer your poor fellow a helping hand, instead of a smirk. You ass.
I take it you are an atheist then? If so, it makes me laugh to see someone like you quoting someone who tortured people for owning a bible in English and not in Latin.
A religious scolar stated that Thomas More:
Quote:…the heretic hunter of the mid-1520s, who personally broke into Lutherans’ homes and sent men to the stake, … [and who] would punish religious dissent not only with “displeasant” words but with state violence.
Does it make what he said less accurate?
Argumentum ad Hominem
Please don't throw fallacies at me. Show me something wrong with the quote itself, if you don't like it.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead