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   On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:23:38 -0600, "¦ Reality Check© ¦"    
   wrote:   
      
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   >"Svenne"  wrote in message   
   >news:0gce35911kd779fgla5hm7ogichrh211ai@4ax.com...   
   >> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:38:46 +1000, "Dr. Sir John Howard, AC, WSCMoF"   
   >>  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>We can just give them bleach to inject instead. That should have the   
   >>>desired   
   >>>side effect of reducing the crime rate too.   
   >>   
   >> This idea has possibilities.   
   >>   
   >> We could treat tobacco with cyanide which would put smokers out of   
   >> circulation and save a fortune on old age pensions and health care.   
   >   
   >Insha'allah !!   
      
   "there’s a fairly uniform distribution of sociopaths across time and space,   
   including   
   in America today. All countries, in all eras, have them -- but   
   in good times, they stay under their rocks. Who would have guessed that the   
   Germans of   
   the last century, who had much more than their share of writers,   
   composers, philosophers, scientists, plain middle-class   
   shopkeepers, and a well-educated, orderly population would   
   have bred the Nazis? The Turks in the ‘20s, the Russians in   
   the ‘20s and ‘30s, the Chinese in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the Serbs   
   in the ‘90s, the Rwandans… It would be easy to recount dozens   
   of recent examples of perfectly ordinary countries that   
   have gone bonkers. The fact is that your neighbor or your   
   mailman, who pets his dog, hugs his kids, and plays softball   
   on the weekends, might exhibit a much less appealing, indeed   
   an appalling, side when social conditions change.   
      
   The problem arises when a society becomes highly politicized.   
   In normal times, a sociopath stays under the radar. Perhaps   
   he’ll commit a common crime when he thinks he can   
   get away with it, but social mores keep him reined in. However,   
   once the government changes its emphasis from protecting   
   citizens from force to initiating it with laws and taxes,   
   those social mores break down. Peer pressure and moral opprobrium,   
   the forces that keep a healthy society orderly and   
   together, are replaced by regulation enforced by cops funded   
   by taxes. And sociopaths start coming out of the woodwork   
   and are drawn to the State, where they can get licensed and   
   paid to do what they’ve always wanted to do. It’s very simple,   
   really. There are two ways people can relate to each other: voluntarily   
   or coercively. The government is pure coercion, and   
   sociopaths are drawn to its power and force.   
   After a certain point, a critical mass is reached. The sociopaths   
   who are naturally drawn to government start to dominate   
   it. They reset the social mores of the country they control.   
   And it’s game over. I suspect we’re approaching that   
   point."   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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