Originally posted by ck_taft325is
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1 - Health care is not a morality question. Gay marriage, interracial marriage, attempts to control substances, gender discrimination, those are morality questions. (make a mental note about which group of people is a huge fan of governing those questions ;)) Health care is about right to life. It's also interesting that you wrote "health care for everyone at everyone elses expense". This phrasing suggests that you think that you will end up paying for someone else's healthcare AND your own, which is illogical. For the record, I am strongly opposed to government influence in my personal opinions, tendencies, beliefs, and actions, so I'm not really sure where you got the idea that this was not the case.
2 - You talk about how telling people how to live their life is not about your morality, but about "doing the right thing". Do you disagree that your own personal morality (regardless of its source) is what tells you what "the right thing" is?
3 - Notice how whenever you get laid off, you get an unemployment check regardless of your opinions. When you get your next one, I'd like you to send it back to the government so that they can refund it back to the people who actually pay income taxes. If you believe in Capitalism so strongly, you should have performed well enough to remain employable, or accept that by definition, some members of a Capitalist ecosystem will fail.
4 - "anyone that adheres to the Socialist view is claiming that someone owe's them something. So, start living your convictions. [...] I expect you to toss me 10% or so of your monthly wages to help me." Wait, what? Am I the Socialist here, or are you?
Bonus - my implication was that my opinions make me a "Socialist" to about the same degree that your opinions make you a "Bible-thumpin' loony Christian". The application of these labels is meaningless, it misses important distinctions and sets up thousands of strawmen. You're quick to become defensive of your loony Bible-thumpin' ways, though :p
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