Posts: 10,639
Threads: 927
Joined: Aug 2006
John,
a person with normal reflexes would not talk about liberty and individualism and at the end, proudly present a pic like that of his past,
![[Image: 10.jpg]](http://www.citadel.edu/netccms/banner/corps/10.jpg)
To my knowledge, Pinoccio was the only puppet ever to enjoy a free will, but he could no lie undetected. I'm sure you have no idea what I'm talking about. Never mind. :lol:
"You know, Paul, Reagan proved that deficits don't matter." Dick Cheney
Posts: 8,524
Threads: 1,695
Joined: Aug 2007
I recruited candidates for this Military College. Despite only having less than a thousand students, it has produced more Rhodes Scholars than any other Canadian university.
RMC
The true purpose of democracy is not to select the best leaders — a clearly debatable obligation — but to facilitate the prompt and peaceful removal of obviously bad ones.
Posts: 1,343
Threads: 67
Joined: Oct 2004
The military is collectivist by nature, in the extreme: the individual follows without question the directives of the group and their leaders.
The collective is invariably of higher value than the individual - absolutely.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Posts: 26,960
Threads: 1,388
Joined: Oct 2004
Stroll,
You miss the importance of military discipline,w/o it we all would lose our personal freedom. That is the rare case where individualists like John support sacrificing our personal freedom to preserve it for others.
You'd have us slaves to the Hitler's of the world and we can't have that.
Posts: 1,343
Threads: 67
Joined: Oct 2004
John L Wrote:stroll Wrote:West-Berlin suffered from notorious neglect and lack of investment into its housing stock during the 70s and 80s. One of the few places you could still admire MG-rounds caused damage to fassades and enjoy the original pre-war plumbing in the bathroom.
And guess which way politically the Germans went? If you say Democratic Socialists/Social Democrats, YOU WIN!! Thank you for making my point Stroll.
This strange remark doesn't make much sense John.
What exactly are you referring to?
Do you not know about the special status Berlin had and the policies in connection with this?
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
