(06-07-2019, 06:57 AM)David Horn Wrote:(06-07-2019, 03:51 AM)vine Wrote: Defending the government just gets tougher everyday.
I can tell that you're still young. Reality will eventually catch you as it does to us all.
We've had really thoughtful libertarians in the past, so it's not just your philosophy that rankles. It's the lack of basic grounding. Try some three dimensional thinking.
His is the sort of rhetoric that reminds me of Jared Loughner -- remember him? He's the nutcase who opened fire on a public meeting of then-Representative Gabby Giffords, putting an end to a promising political career that could have culminated in the Presidency... killing six people and injuring 13 others (including Representative Giffords).
If he is not in need of psychiatric evaluation, he needs to get some real-life experience in work and get a college-level education, ideally in the liberal arts. His deficiencies are obvious. He cannot even judge the reliability of sources. Church Militant? Yuck! One of its articles questioned whether Islam is really a religion, which goes beyond criticism into denial.
Truth be told, kids between 18 and 22 are generally not desirable workers unless their work is strictly repetitive and routine, as on an assembly line or in something like farm labor. If smart they are bulls in a china shop who do not realize that they are potential trouble-makers. Good reason exists for college education, one of which is to tame those bulls without castrating them.
The most important thing that a kid can learn is the capacity for judging the purported facts that they are offered so that (1) they can draw valid conclusions, and (2) learn to recognize the difference between reliable information on the one side and myth, fantasy, deceit, and utter nonsense on the other.
I hope that he starts on a healthy and adequate diet (assuming that vine is male). I have seen several cases of young men committing outrageous outbursts, many of them suggesting anorexia. Anorexic females seem to hurt only themselves, but combine anorexia and testosterone and you may have a dangerous combination.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.