03-13-2017, 03:33 PM
(03-13-2017, 02:51 PM)Kinser79 Wrote:(03-13-2017, 02:37 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(03-13-2017, 12:30 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: There's so much sadness in the world, in all the subjects that I write
about. I can usually just pretend that it's all happening on another
planet, but this picture in Syria really got to me:
What a sad picture.
There were many diystopian films during the 2T. Some of the best ones were during the late 2T (Mad Max, The Terminator, etc). Those films depicted the advanced countries. Well, here it is 30 - 40 years later and the advanced countries did not turn out that way. But lo and behold, in places like Syria on the other hand ....
And yet it never occurs to some that perhaps places like Syria and so forth are the way they are because of the, perhaps well intentioned, meddling of others. That perhaps the most humanitarian thing to do is to do nothing.
Odd how that never occurs to anyone. Maybe there is some merit to the non-aggression principle after all.
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