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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet
useless dribble from a sprawling bureaucracy IMHO
I have elected to fill out the only part of the census required - and i'm receiving flack for it?
interesting.
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It's not interesting, in my opinion. It's absolutely indefensible albeit expected.
One person wishes to remain a private citizen. He's confronted with several individuals who believe that said private information should be recorded (and could never be abused and therefore used against you). Yet they rhetorically attack you for the very stance of witholding such information, as though it's somehow counter-productive.
Hell, with people like that in power, its no wonder that you wouldn't want the government to know such details. If those kind of people can come down on you for the simple fact of your maintaining your privacy, imagine what they could do with REAL information about your demographic?
Nice job, libs. Previously I wasn't concerned with releasing such information about my family (as indicated in an earlier post in this thread). Your intellectual masturbations have done nothing more than to compel me to deny the feds such information.
Maybe the individuals of the so-implied "tolerant" political persuasion will someday learn that tolerance includes ideas that they don't agree with. History forces me to doubt that eventuality, but one can still hope...
In any case, does not anyone else see the pattern? Someone who's generally conservative states an opinion about a government function, and those of the opposite viewpoint unite to shoot it down!
Quite frankly, an intellectually honest person would have either thought or said, "I understand, although I disagree." But it requires an intellectual response (rather than an emotional one) to reach that conclusion, so I suppose my expectations are too high.
Resultingly, like I said, I will be withholding certain information, and I hope that other independent thinkers follow suit, as its clear the type of people who want the information the most are the most intolerant of said info.
Again, nicely done, libs. I can only hope that I will someday be able to shut off my brain to such an extent as you have.