"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."

Isn't the original question basically the plot to 'Trading Places' with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy?

I'm glad to see so many responses.
@Krellin, your post craked me up.

Is religion and their belifes the problem? Many have slaughtered masses of people just because they "believe" in a god different from there's. When I "believe " I mean the don't "know".
If a book of stories are needed to guide you in knowing whats right and wrong. Then I would think that person was never righteous to begin with.

@ Tolstoy: The Iraq war was a crime and what's more, an affront to any notion of democracy. Tony Blair should be in jail.

@ Faded Box: Your posts are painful to read.

"Is religion and their belifes the problem? Many have slaughtered masses of people just because they "believe" in a god different from there's. When I "believe " I mean the don't "know".
If a book of stories are needed to guide you in knowing whats right and wrong. Then I would think that person was never righteous to begin with."

Ignoring the awful spelling, you're attacking a strawman. Neither krellin nor anyone else ever brought up religion in this thread.

@leon, some people are new here. And don't know how easily threads get derailed.

Thus i would remind you, this thread started off talking about religion, not taxes.

Good call Lethologica regarding krellin's idiotic rantings, cork brained clowns like krellin confirm my view that humanity's path to enlightenment will be arduous and lengthy

@Jamie -- "I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy... civilisation."


Funny thing is, the locations I visit in which there are the fewest tax payers, and the most number of people sucking off the gove/ment teet....display the absolute LEAST amount of what most people would consider "CIVIL-ization..."

So your argument fails completely, dear old chap.

The way you phrased that makes it look more like a reinforcement than a refutation of his argument, krellin :)

TrPrado, not at all.

Taxes are a necessary evil, I agree with that in a general sense.

the problem is a Libtard like Jamie, heart-of-gold, lover of mankind and all that shit, think we should just collect more and more taxes so benefit the "lesser" among us, blah blah blah...

Reality is, the more we tax in order to transfer wealth to the "lesser among us", the less they do, the more they stay stuck in the cesspools of less-than-civilization that get created in our welfare cities, you get generational poverty with less and less ambition to leave it, increasing rates of crime, generally speaking increasing rates of what good folk would consider decent morality , and just general overall decay.

People that, in the absence of society and in the event of full-on evolutionary survival of the fittest would just do the human race a survivor and no longer be able to reproduce an pass on their less-than-effective gene pools, instead become the dominant breeders!

It's just a mess...

"Reality is, the more we tax in order to transfer wealth to the "lesser among us", the less they do"

Do you have any evidence for this massive generalization of between 90 and 95 percent of the country and an even greater percentage of the world population?

"Funny thing is, the locations I visit in which there are the fewest tax payers"

When you travel about the place, how do you know instantly who is a taxpayer and who is not? Do you have some kind of special device?

If you think you can tax your way to equalization, you've been hitting the crack pipe too hard. We live in a capitalist society, not socialist, communist or fascist. Entitlements like welfare have driven takers to take more, and feel they are entitled to more for nothing. That's bullshit. It's not even Steven, they will always be people with more than others. Welfare as it sits now should be abolished. Yes, people have hard times and yes, the govt should help in the short term, but after that, those people need to find jobs and be productive parts of society. If they want to continue on welfare, they should have to work for the govt at below minimum wage, so the govt just doesn't keep giving for nothing in return. Maybe then, people would get off their asses and find real employment.

Lol, we live in a very socialistic society. Not even gonna bother with the rest of that ugly post.

You millennials are really a piece of work. You yap, yap yap, about all the injustice in the world and yet you live at home and do nothing but take. Your generation and its legacy will leave nothing but posted ideals on some social media site. I'll be long since dead, and tossing in my grave that my children will have to deal with your idealistic shit. Sad.

Yea, Napoleon and the French Revolutionary generation were totally just idealistic complainers.

Man, we may fuck everything up, but at least we didn't completely ruin the entire world's economy and environment, Barbara.

Bo_PinDick, sucks what? It matters little to me. You are all the ones who will have to live and make your way. Good luck.

Uh, okay, thanks. We can do that. Can't fuck it up all that much worse, honestly.

We shall see.

Yes we shall, Oh Great Prophet Ssorenn.

"Bo_PinDick, sucks what?"
Wow, and we're the kids.

Everything a baby boomer touches dies.

You somehow are still alive Bo

My parents are young.

Bo is a talkig corpse. That explains his lack of higher brain function.

Like a zombie? Cool. Braaaaaaiiiiiins.

Instead of moving home and draining your parents when your expensive college is over, you and TrPrado can move in together and talk about the injustices of the world. Then do nothing