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Old 17-01-2008, 06:34 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Akria View Post
I didn't say that they would be forced to accept it - merely that, given the choice, we should endeavour to help those less fortunate before ourselves.

And how does theft come into it? You have not explained that.
Or, for that matter, the ends justifying the means (a highly debatable point).

Taxation is a theft like any other. There is no mandate for forced charity.

Your impossible praise of altruism speaks mountains of you, but what says even more is your desire, or lack thereof, to force us all to become altruistic

The altruist is a fool, the socialist is an evil fool.
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