Re: ya no insurance outlaw it

pukindog <pdscteam@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Zenin wrote:
If you don't want to wear a helmet that you're right. But after your
dumbass gets their brains smashed in society has a right to harvest
your organs so that smarter people then you (which aren't hard to
find...you are dumb enough to ride without a helmet after all) may
live on to better the world.

sounds a bit like socialism to me.

A little bit. A little bit of socialism is needed to keep capitalism
and the free market healthy.

The real problem that extremists of any ideological bent have is a blind
faith in their ideology. They believe it to be perfect in every
possible way and not improvable by anything. There's no evidence to
support their faith (regardless of the ideological bent in question),
but that's why it's faith.

A pragmatist such as myself has a far more open mind, able to see the
short comings of various methods as well as their strengths. Most
importantly the pragmatist allows themself the freedom to see how the
weaknesses of one method can be strengthened by features of another.

Pure socialism would be a disaster; There's tons of evidence of this.

Pure communism would similarly be a disaster, and there's tons of
evidence of this as well.

Pure free market capitalism would also be a disaster, and again there's
tons of evidence of this as well.

America works because it's not a pure single ideology of any bent, but a
pragmatic melting pot of ideas. The Crash of 1929 and the Great
Depression that followed were undeniable evidence that the closer to a
"pure" free market one gets the less stable it becomes. A tiny touch of
socialism was added in the form of Social Security, Medicare, work
programs, and similar.

America was reminded by Reagan just why a pure, unregulated free market
system was a bad idea: October 19, 1987, the largest crash in American
history (even bigger then the '29 crash). The only reason we didn't see
a second Great Depression (only a major recession) was due to the
"socialistic" safeguards put in place after the first crash.

Historically America is a nation of pragmatic solutions, not extremist
ideologies of any bent. That history sadly...is being lost, much to the
detriment of the country. Laissez faire capitalism is back in vogue
here...

-Zenin
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