Notorious, I am genuinely trying to engage you in intellectual discourse. Honestly, I am.
Again voting for someone else to spend their time, money and resources to make a wrong right doesn't make you moral.
Who is someone else? We as a society are a collective group. If that group makes decisions, collectively and justly, then it is for the whole.
If society elects to wage war on Afghanistan and Iraq; I as an Arab-American don't get to say "don't use my tax money, fuck this, I quit." I'm a part of society, that's what society is, that's what it means. That's what social contracts are for.
Beyond that you use the phrase "a wrong," which suggests a moral argument.
On what moral basis is your argument founded?
It makes you fucking lazy.
How? Voting makes you lazy? How does this make rational sense?
You mean me personally? I try to.
Sell your car, live in squalor, send all of your cash to Syria or Ethiopa. You be the example.
But.. I'm not asking anyone to do that. Why would I be the example for something that I don't think others should do?
I'm asking for us
as a society to help these people. You understand how that is different than asking an individual to take personal action and personal responsibility over such a monumental feat right?
It's like saying, don't support action against ISIS until you fucking pick up a gun and get your ass over there yourself.
Such an argument is nonsensical, and can't be had in good faith because it presupposes a condition of anarchy and hyperindividualism that doesn't exist in reality.
Beyond that, I
can't send money to Syria personally, as an action of my own, or I'd be arrested. I can't get a visa to go to Syria, as I'd likely be put on a watchlist.
So let me ask you, with this said, do you understand my position? Can we have a rational discussion about the policy?
We're 18 Trillion dollars in the hole. I'd say our back is pretty broke.
The United States isn't remotely "broke." As I demonstrated in the POTUS thread, even conservative think tanks agree we can pay this debt down. I think a great deal of misunderstanding comes out of conversations relating to deficit spending and the national debt as it's not a very well understood phenomena.