Canada judge: Man not responsible for beheading

[Synaptrik]

Criticism without content. Tis a wonder of society that your main contribution is empty retribution.

This statement is false

[Lost User]

Ilíon wrote:

‘women and children first’

A feminist/liberal sentiment, if ever I encountered one. :)

Ilíon wrote:

"Liberalism," having gained control of most of the institutions of society, trains us up to be Eloi.

But only the other day you agreed that the following described a future liberal society: Above these an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments and watching over their fate. It is absolute, detailed, regular, far-seeing, and mild. It would resemble paternal power if, like that, it had for its object to prepare men for manhood; but on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood; How do you reconcile the two dystopian futures?

Bob Emmett

[73Zeppelin]

Steyn's nothing but a talking head who writes sensational trash so that he can con his supporters into allowing him to eek out a living. The reason he needs to eek out a living is because he's incapable of earning his own keep. I knew you were naive, but I didn't realize you were naive enough to grovel at the feet of Steyn. That's pretty low even by your standards. The most amusing thing about you is how dependent you are on other people's opinions.

[Ilion]

73Zeppelin wrote:

Steyn's nothing but a talking head who writes sensational trash so that ...

Good "argument!" I am in awe at your reasoning skills.

[Ilion]

Bob Emmett wrote:

How do you reconcile the two dystopian futures?

Is there a contradiction? Where is it, I'm not seeing it. And, if you were willing to think about it, rather than trying to play "Gotcha," you'd also see that there is no contradiction. Training up the "citizens" to be Eloi is part of the mildness of happy-face despotism. So long as the "citizens" remain childlike in relation to The State, the velvet gloves can be left on. The point of happy-face despotism is not the good of the "citizens" but to make them incapable of revolt: if "citizens" are massacered here and there, that's a minor non-issue, so long as the "citizens" remain unfocused and unorganized, and child-like or Eloi-like.

[Ilion]

Gary Kirkham wrote:

You are wise not to answer the question. One answer would prove you to be a fool, the other a hypocrite.

You pathetic fool, to imagine that "So! Have you stopped beating your wife?" should be taken seriously.

[Oakman]

73Zeppelin wrote:

I didn't realize you were naive enough to grovel at the feet of Steyn.

Steyn preaches fear and hatred, just like Bin Laden. Naturally Troy would worship at his feet.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface Algoraphobia: An exaggerated fear of the outside world rooted in the belief that one might spontaneously combust due to global warming.

[Ilion]

Synaptrik wrote:

Criticism without content. Tis a wonder of society that your main contribution is empty retribution.

Either: the posting-system is incorectly telling me that you'd directed that at me or: you amusingly imagine that you'd said something meaningful to me.

[Gary Kirkham]

But yet I could have answered the same question without being a fool or a hypocrite.

Gary Kirkham Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit "Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life. Me blog, You read

[Lost User]

Ilíon wrote:

rather than trying to play "Gotcha"

:rolleyes: Dystopia 1. Wells' story is a ripping yarn satirising the British class system as at the end of the 19th century. The Eloi were the rulers; they are the evolution of indolence, where all is provided by the labour of others. The Morlocks were the ruled; they are the evolution of the providers, the miners, the sweat-shop workers, the servants below stairs, the machine operators. Out of sight, out of mind. The Morelocks did not reduce the Eloi to their 'childlike' state, they merely took advantage of it. And they don't farm the Eloi, they hunt. Dystopia 2. De Tocqueville posited that democracy could create citizens who related to the state as children do to a parent. Of course it could (so, too, could a charismatic despot). The difference is that in a democracy, you get to change your parents.

Ilíon wrote:

Training up the "citizens" to be Eloi is part of the mildness of happy-face despotism.

The USA and Canada have not yet renounced democracy for despotism, happy-faced or otherwise, and the "citizens" are actually citizens. Whether the majority of the citizens of the USA and Canada are resigned, docile, and 'childlike', you are in a better position to say than I. Childlike Innocent, trusting, simple, naive, credulous, artless, ingenuous, guileless, unfeigned, trustful. It really does depend on the child. :)

Bob Emmett