(07-09-2016, 04:15 AM)taramarie Wrote:(07-09-2016, 04:05 AM)Galen Wrote:(07-09-2016, 03:48 AM)taramarie Wrote: That happens with pretty much everything. Ban something and they will find a way to get it. Government edicts can only go so far. My great-grandmother pointed that out to me when I was a kid. She also called the police crooks which is a major condemnation coming from a Victorian era women who didn't use obscenities. Which tells you how long this sort of crap has been going on. The cell phone camera and YouTube just make it so obvious that it is hard to ignore.
Agreed. I take it your great grandmother was a lost generation member? She sounds like she had a wise head on her shoulders. Yes I made the comparison to alcohol prohibition but the kiwi knows squat apparently.
Yes, she was Lost. Even by my time there were not very many of them left. The Boomers ignored them but you have no idea how much trouble she saved me from. Twenty-three years dead and she is still worth listening to and I can't say that about many of the living.
The kiwi is telling them that their Utopia is not possible which is something they can't handle. So they decide to ignore reality. Consider the following quote:
The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
This is the mentality you are dealing with.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises