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Originally Posted by Skybird
Sigh. 
As long as you cannot show wrong the reason and sane argument in the statement in my sig, it is impossible for me to take you serious, and I have nothing more to say to you on this. Either you get it, or you do not get it. |
And you still haven't shown how you're going to accomplish this tightrope walk without destroying everything you claim to be protecting.
You want to take something I said in the old 'Gay Marriage' thread - "You either have freedom or you don't", and claim I feel that way about everything. Can you tell me how many times I've said things like "I go into every discussion assuming I might be wrong", "I don't know anything", "Nothing is ever black and white" and "Nothing is absolute"? No, you pick that one out of a crowd just so you could attack one statement.
The fact is that everything needs a starting point. When I say something like "All taxation is evil", it's a starting point, not a final answer. Same with my comment on freedom. How many times have I said in this discussion that I recognize that everything has limitations, including freedom? Yet you keep coming back to the same lecture - that I don't understand, and need you to save me.
I know that the radical Islamists are dangerous. Here in America we lock up people for what they do, not for what they say.
You still haven't explained why I shouldn't be frightened of you. You still haven't explained why they shouldn't be allowed to build a building. You still haven't explained why I shouldn't see you as the enemy of freedom just as much as they are. Mostly what you have done is preach.
Sigh loudly all you want. You like to lecture, you like to be right, and you like to talk down to people, and you like to tell my how stupid I am over one thing I said while ignoring everything else I've ever said as well.