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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
You posted your IQ score, you opened the door , not me.
I dont see where taking from the rich will relieve the suffering of the oppressed. The reasons behind the "bad things in the world" are not all related to money. You seem to suffer from reverse discrimination or perhaps just pure and simple jealousy. You want to create by tearing down instead of building up. My "defeatest attitude" stems from the realization that all men are NOT equal despite your determiniation that we are all 'connected'. I am sure that my skills and intellegence levels in certain matters are far greater than yours as yours in certain matters are greater than mine. That does not make us equals despite any connection that we may have. Just as the strong survive in the wild, natural selection dictates that some will overcome while some will fail. The strong should not have to pay a penalty for being strong.
Think of the world if we gave all people equal opportunity at the moment of our birth. Do you not think that some would lead while others would follow? Would not some become great successes while others become common criminals? You seem to equate wealth with a poor sense of morality. As though the rich are somehow taking advantage of the poor by being rich?
Perfect world models are silly unless you are stoned or tripping on acid. If we all lived in perfect harmony and cured all diseases the world would run out of food and fresh water in 6 months. Ambition is not a crime, nor is being wealthy and spending your money in the manner that you please. The rich cant inject ambition into the poor. Many rich people started out life as poor as dirt and worked and worked and got a lucky break or two and found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If not for that dream, whats to motivate the poor? Why work hard to achieve when Sommerfrost is going to steal from the rich so that we have "equality"?
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Well CS, I don't know about your concept of "opening the door"....I really don't care about it, but you sure seem fixated on it. You equate success with wealth...I don't, and that is something I doubt we will reach common ground on! Jealous of the wealthy...why? Anyway, I don't care about the accumulation of wealth but I do care when folks' greed harms others. Is a person evil because they are rich? Of course not, nor are they "inferior" because they are poor. Everyone has talents, and everyone has weaknesses...how does that reflect on their intrinsic "value"?? Again, you are using a measure of a person's worth that I totally reject...so there is no real chance that we will agree here! All I'm saying is that you can't measure my philosophy using your yardstick...do you understand that? Let me try one last time here...I see all of creation as being connected, all people as being connected, we are all part of that which we call mankind and we are all part of the universes which in turn are part of the creator, that makes us all equal...it can be no other way! Now, you may reject this philosophy, you may even make fun of it, that's your decision...but it's pointless for us to argue whether my view is true or not...it's true to me! I believe that the world's resources should be shared equally by everyone and that no one has a "right" to take more than their share at the expense of others!