Dreadful
Jan 25, 2005
I am from the government and I want to help.
I had a conversation with a Canadian (socialist) friend once who supported the ban of smoking in every restaurant and pub. I told him that the decision to ban smoking or not should be left to the owners of the restaurants and pubs. I myself get a headache from cigarette smoke but I wouldn't force an owner of private property to ban a legal activity on his/her premises.
My friend replied: people have a right to eat without being bothered by cigarette smoke. Hunh. The more I talk to socialists, the more I realize that they have little to no respect for a person's right to his/her private property.
Update: The point made in the comment accepted. It is, however, strange that the modern socialists pound on about various rights and new rights are created out of thin air like the right to eat without being bothered by cigarette smoke. Instead, in the process they disregard one of the most basic rights: to manage one's property legally as one wishes. That's the surreal part; the supposed defenders of human/worker rights not caring at all about property rights. In essense creating the tools for more government power which as we all know leads to utopia. See USSR, pre-1979 China, Cuba, Syria, etc.
Mr. Kors was right. There won't be an After Socialism.
erm. thats kinda what socalism means innit?
Posted by: HA HA HA | Jan 25, 2005 at 06:52 PM