Good Question

"About 5,000 innocent people are killed each year by drunk drivers. Ask yourself, do we want to live in a society where we allow cops to pin us down, push needles into us, and extract blood from us in order put a small dent in that number?"

Radley Balko asks the above in response to an article, subscription only, in the Wall Street Journal. Radley excerpts a portion of the article in the link provided here.

My answer to the question.  No way.

Posted by on 03/26 at 05:34 AM

  1. Wanna know how someone really feels about “protecting public religious displays?” Ask them about reading the Quran aloud at their kids’ schools, or maybe having the football team cast a Wiccan circle on the field before Homecoming.

    That is one of the most absurd posts I’ve seen you make Mr. Venlet.

    I suppose that by the same logic that if we really want to see who believes in FREE SPEECH we’d have to constantly play speeches by Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin on TV, along with hard core pornography?

    Or I could say that if Anarchists really wanted to demonstarte that they believed in Anarchy they would start practicing Anarchy at home by not ever coercing their children to do anything against their wishes (like toilet traininng). 

    Posted by The Serpent  on  03/10  at  12:44 PM

  2. Evidently my ability for absurdity is only overshadowed by your ability to assume you know why I post.

    Posted by  on  03/10  at  01:19 PM

  3. I don’t know why you post Mr. Venlet, at least I don’t know the precise reason. But I suspect (assume) that it has something to do with a desire to express your views, and maybe even to see if other individuals agree or disagree with those views and to find out the reasons why they agree or disagree.

    But then at times, you get rather silent, like maybe you don’t want to explain the “why” behind those views, or maybe you don’t care whether anyone agrees or disagrees? Maybe you just want to express, express, express, and skip all the “messiness” (i.e. logic) of actually explaining anything?

    You tell me Mr. Venlet. Should I be here just to listen, or should I be here to have a conversation (an exchange)?

    Posted by  on  03/10  at  01:54 PM

  4. If I choose to be silent it is because I want individuals to read what is posted and mull over it themselves.

    Posted by  on  03/10  at  02:06 PM

  5. Is the George Smith who wrote that article by any chance the same George Smith who wrote:

    Atheism - The Case Against God

    ???

    Posted by  on  03/10  at  02:29 PM

  6. I do not know the answer to that question.

    Posted by  on  03/11  at  11:08 AM

  7. Know your sources Mr. Venlet.

    Otherwise you might as well be asking Patricia Ireland (National Organization for Women) for an unbiased assessment on the state of Women’s rights.

    Then again maybe Al Franken and Michael Moore really are providing an “Objective” view of George Bush’s presidency?

    Posted by  on  03/11  at  11:27 AM

  8. Please pardon my failing for not knowing my sources.

    Posted by  on  03/11  at  02:40 PM

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