Re:A New Way of Voting That Makes Zealotry Expensive
by pdonis on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:30PM
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> Pay off every world power hard up for money that comes along?
I have not proposed any such thing. Being willing to pay money for a specific valuable objective--independence for the American Colonies, freedom for the slaves of the American South--is not at all the same as being willing to pay money to anyone who comes along and asks for it.
> You can try paying off bullies
So you think the British were bullying the American Colonies? You think the South was bullying the North before the Civil War? On what basis?
If you look at the historical record, you will see that, if anything, it was the Colonies bullying the British until the British got fed up, and the Northern abolitionists bullying the South until the South got fed up.
> You're being a bit naive man.
No, I'm simply taking to its logical conclusion a premise that seems obvious to me: that paying for something with money, if you can, is better than paying for it with human lives.
I have not proposed any such thing. Being willing to pay money for a specific valuable objective--independence for the American Colonies, freedom for the slaves of the American South--is not at all the same as being willing to pay money to anyone who comes along and asks for it.
> You can try paying off bullies
So you think the British were bullying the American Colonies? You think the South was bullying the North before the Civil War? On what basis?
If you look at the historical record, you will see that, if anything, it was the Colonies bullying the British until the British got fed up, and the Northern abolitionists bullying the South until the South got fed up.
> You're being a bit naive man.
No, I'm simply taking to its logical conclusion a premise that seems obvious to me: that paying for something with money, if you can, is better than paying for it with human lives.