Comments by "" (@TentaclePentacle) on "The Rubin Report"
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These days the more I hear the left talk the more right I become. I can't stand the left anymore, but then Dave allow the right to speak, an offer up their sober views. After listening to this guy's idea, it was enjoyable, it makes me think, but after all he said, he just reminded me why I'm on the left.
There is a problem with this guy's view. Charity is the safety net? But according to his world view, everyone should act on their own self interest. So if everyone is acting on self interest why should I donate to charity, how dose donating to charity help me? This whole charity being the safety net is a net full of holes, it will not catch everyone that falls.
History remembers, before deposit insurance banks would fail, and people would lose their money. Some bank manage could run off with all the money and the depositors would lose. Some one spreads a rumor that this bank is going under, people would line up at the teller and demand their money, there would be a massive withdraw, and even if the bank was healthy a mere rumor of it being unhealthy would cause the bank to fail. Those cases have happened in the past. Those are the reasons why deposit insurance was introduced.
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+Sean Thomson
The magna carta is about individual rights, its about what a king may, or may not do to a subject. The regressive left believes in group rights not individual rights. The regressive left is perfectly happy to use the state to crush individual rights. So no the regressive left don't support the magna carta.
And you are correct about western culture and philosophy, at least what can be considered the modern west is based on liberalism.
On the difference between what separates a libertarian and a classical liberal. I have already told you, libertarians have a disdain for government, while liberals love government, they want to improve it. Hence the transition from monarchy to a democracy. A libertarian would like to opt out of government, they believe taxation is theft, while a liberal does not. A libertarian believes you are born with certain rights. A liberal position is that your rights are given to you by a government. That is why they forced king John to sign the magna carta, guaranteeing those rights. I have watched Sargon's debate with libertarians on the issue of rights, Sargon intuitively understands this, but he couldn't quiet spell it out, to put it in those words. That's why Sargon have so much trouble distinguishing himself with librarians. I believe that inability to think of rights as given to you by the government is a relic and hold back from a religious backgrounds for most of the western liberals. Most of those early liberals are christians after all. They think of rights as something god given, but in reality rights are given to you by the state, or society at large.
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