@Cycloptichorn,
Quote:I support the government providing low-cost or assisted housing to the homeless, yes. It doesn't have to be nice or even comfortable; but it would solve more problems than it costs.
Yeah--well--supporting the government is easy. What does it do for the homeless? Have you offered any the use of your spare room? Given them your coat. Your desire to be thought so compassionate is actually providing the other side with a platform. And if okie is right and you are nurturing the Fascist state where is your compassion then? It could look like something just for parading around with. And what about the compassion for the homeless in other countries. If it's reserved for Americans some would say you're a racist.
Are you in the Salvation Army? There's a few bonny chicks in the Sally Army. And not a few tough broilers.
And wouldn't these cheap houses which you admit, a neat trim I must say, needn't be "nice or even comfortable" be subject to the facts of deciding where they were to be located and them turn into another Soweto. Everybody knows the sort of people who would be inhabiting the districts. Even if you built just one cheap, horrible uncomfortable house for the needy in every suburban street it would lower the tone of the neighbourhood.
Actually, coming to think about it, that might be the solution. Thin them out. And think of the charity they would receive if the neighbourhood had a choice of raising them up to acceptable standards or their property dropping $50,000 apiece.
Quote:You feel something should be true, so you seek to use ideology to prove that. This is logically fallacious of you.
It isn't at all. Not everybody, as you seem to think, is running the ideology past us with nothing but an eye on the main chance. A few do feel it first. Then the ideology they express is just an image or an expression of that feeling. They are, of course, the dangerous ones. That's why power corrupts. If the feeling is strong enough it lends itself to learning to create the image and expressing it persuasivly and when these characteristics combine in a sort of chemical reaction, which is all that the materialists can make of it, in a cauldron, it can lead to power. And if the will to power is as all embracing as some philosophers say, materialists, it overwhelms the feeling, which is being eroded all the time anyway on the way up. In other words, if the materialists are right, it is a natural chemico/physico response of man the machine and only a martyr stands in the way of that being a scientific fact.
it's **** like this which is so ridiculous, Okie, and shows that you don't understand what Fascism means. You just use it to mean whatever you want.