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Originally Posted by AdamLein

The most important institutions in America are not taxation and welfare, but capitalism and freedom. Where do you think these trillions of dollars worth of human, physical, and institutional capital came from? They came from individual investment and ingenuity, which you seem to have so little faith in. America's infrastructure, pretty much up to WWII, was entirely privately built. We only got to where we were because the government protected the rights of individuals to their intellectual and physical and monetary property.

Anybody who tries to make this argument an emotional one -- by trying to incite either pity (for the homeless mom) or anger (at her laziness) is trying to prevent us from using our minds to determine what's best, so I propose that we drop that line of reasoning.

Anybody who proposes that anything I produce should be taken away from me and given to somebody else -- a homeless mom today, or somebody in the "next generation" needs to explain by what right that product of mine is taken without my consent. What makes it okay for anybody (even the sacred majority) to use force against anybody else (even a despised minority)?

There is no way to justify theft on a moral level, which is why today's fringe left tells us that individuals are unimportant, that morality is relative, and that property itself is theft. The only way they can win the argument is by destroying all principles on which the argument is based. Or, they point to a homeless mom, and try to make me feel guilty for not helping her. My recommendation to anybody who cares about freedom is: not to fall into either of these traps.

That was really well put Adam......................