Quote:Hiya Instigate
What if you ended up with more after the 'redistribution' would you still fight tooth and nail?
I guess I'm asking if you're supporting a system or just your place in it.
Hey there Hingehead. I support a system. Im 22, by no means weathy, and the socialist redistribution scheme probably would benefit me as I have no health insurance. But I can take care of myself. My feeling is that socialism creates dependants by subsidizing failure and laziness and thus reinforcing them. If you pay for something, more of it happens; conversely, if you tax something, less of it happens. I think that the Left of this country uses tax dollars and social welfare programs to secure and grow their voting base; this seems a very shady and threatening prospect to me.
I think that independant, self sufficient people are more free than those who are dependant upon the government
Quote:If you lined up the havemores versus the havelesses fairly obviously the havelesses are in the majority (aagh - democracy) somehow in stable societies most people sense that just taking what you don't have doesn't work out holistically.
This seems a strange way of thinking. Bill Gates is The Havemore and the rest of us are Havelesses. What about the middle class? Are we havemores or have lesses? There will always be someone with more than you, snd there isnt much you can do about it short of tyranny
Quote:However some groups do manage to take a fair bit of what's not theirs - organised crime springs to mind - and somehow become part of the system without destabilising it much, in fact they sort of get absorbed into it gradually becoming legit.
Yup, criminals is what they are. Thats kind of how I view socialists. The key phrase in your post is in bold above.