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"Sbharris[atsign]ix.netcom.com" <sbharris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > COMMENT:
>> > I seem to remember trying this argument on Zee and getting the response
>> > that me-too autos didn't count because drugs are a different
>> > commodity-- one which saves lives.
>Fresh Horses wrote:
>> You seem to remember wrong boyo. You can expect things like this to
>> happen now you're 50. You'll have other problems too.
>COMMENT:
>You've got me on this one. That argument was actually advanced by
>somebody called MassiveBrainInjury@sleazyISP, who appeared in one
>thread only to challenge some of my arguments, then disappeared off the
>net forever. Sniff, I'll miss it.
Just because someone doesn't reply to your postings doesn't mean that
they've "disappeared off the net forever", nor should you take such
lack of reply as agreement, throwing in the towel, or failure to have
a battery of contra-arguments at the ready. In most cases the person
you're debating with simply has other, better things to do with their
time at that moment and/or can see this developing into a pointless
and endless exchange of firmly held beliefs (whether justified or
not).
I read sci.med daily but posting, especially on an involved topic such
as this, requires just too much time.
I can't resist <g>...
>If "civlization" consists of robbing capitalists so that they decide no
>longer to invest in your "needed industries," then many countries in
>the last century have found that "high civilization" leads directly to
>poverty. The entire Communist ("second") world, for example. And a lot
>of the third world, too (Mexico's nationalized oil didn't help it much,
>did it?). Few people, no matter how highly cultured, will stand for
>simple confiscation of their hard work and money. They are strange that
>way.
Unfortunately it's rarely their "hard work" that provides them with
their capital. Most often it's luck and the payout is winnings in a
lottery only a tiny percentage of us are able (permitted) to buy a
ticket. The difficulty is in determining the part that's attributable
to hard work and that which is luck.
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