Originally posted by petrus4
Until banking CEOs start literally getting thrown through the windows of their offices, people can march up and down the streets as much as they want, and nothing will change.

Psychopaths have no capacity for empathy or compassion. They don't care about you having the moral high ground by engaging in hunger strikes, or whatever else happens to be your favourite form of non-violent resistance. The only way to cause them to change their behaviour, is to cause them to fear for their own lives; because there is absolutely nothing that you can say or do, which will make them give a damn about yours.

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One day a man was walking down the street on his way to work. As he walked down the street, there were dogs on just about every front porch and they all would bark as the man walk passed them. However, there was one dog that he remembered, because this dog was just sitting there and he was whimpering and whining and moaning, you know the little whimpering sounds dogs make when they are wounded or in some sort of pain. Well, this particular dog was just sitting there on the front porch making those sounds. The man was curious as to why this dog wasn’t barking like the other dogs and why he was whimpering. He couldn’t figure it out, so he just kept walking to work. The next day he was in the same situation where he was walking down the street and saw the dogs barking once again and this same dog that was moaning and groaning the other day was doing the same thing today and he just couldn’t figure it out. Well, he walked passed for an entire week and everyday the dog would be there moaning and groaning. So, finally the guy got fed up, he said, “let me find out what’s going on.” So he went and knocked on the door and a guy came out and said, “Yes, how may I help you?” He said, “Sir, is this your dog?” “Yes, that’s my dog.” “Well, what’s wrong with him?” The owner of the dog said, “What do you mean?” “Well, he’s been sitting here moaning and groaning, whimpering and whining for an entire week. The rest of the dogs are barking, your dog should be barking too, why is he moaning and groaning?” The owner said, “Well, he’s actually sitting on a nail.” And the guy said, ‘What! Your dog is sitting on a nail. Why doesn’t he get off?” “Well, it just doesn’t hurt him enough.”

Originally posted by petrus4

No, it isn't. You forget that economic deregulation hasn't happened overnight. It was begun under Reagan.
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Originally posted by petrus4

I would not, no. I, however, also think for myself. Freedom carries with it responsibility; and it is that responsibility which most people are unwilling to exercise.

Originally posted by petrus4
Wonderful. When you've figured out solutions to the twin problems of the existence of the psychopaths, and virtually the entire rest of the human race being pathologically unwilling to self-manage, get back to me.

Originally posted by ElectricUniverse

Originally posted by petrus4
IMO the best way in a society where people can live without having the government trample any individual right, as long as people don't trample other people's rights, and for governments to work for the people is to get back to having SMALL government. Just like the founding fathers set up the Republic of the U.S. originally.

To an extent I agree with this; but I also support the Sherman Act, and I would also truthfully like to see the corporation as a very concept, removed from human memory.

So you could say I'm a little conflicted.