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I feel like I'm being trolled, but the answer is yes, yes, yes, and yes, because I, a progressive, don't give a shit what people do with their lives. I, a prog
by Frondo 9y ago
I feel like I'm being trolled, but the answer is yes, yes, yes, and yes, because I, a progressive, don't give a shit what people do with their lives.
I, a progressive, value personal freedom and want society to support that.
What choices people make with their one shot on earth is up to them. If a handful make choices I don't agree with, I don't give a shit--they're still people are as deserving of the social safety net as anyone.
And that's what it comes down to. I don't care if people make choices I don't agree with. It's their choice, their body, their whatever. Society should work for them as much as it does me, or it's a shitty society.
- ythn 9y ago> What choices people make with their one shot on earth is up to them. Yet you also want me to subsidize the fixing of any consequences related to poor choices, no? In other words "Do whatever the heck you want. If you do something incredibly stupid, everyone will help you recover whether they want to or not." > It's their choice, their body, their whatever. But it's my tax money that will bail them out of the hole they get themselves in. This is exactly what I'm talking about. The liberal mindset does not reward personal responsibly - it punishes it. The responsible people have to foot the bill of the irresponsible.
- Frondo 9y agoYep, exactly so. I exactly want your tax dollars to subsidize behaviors you don't approve of. (Not relevant, but mine sure do, in the form of subsidies, funding the military, paying for the militarization of police, etc.) I want all of us to pay into a social safety net that doesn't discriminate. I have absolutely zero sympathy to this repeated use of this phrase you love, "personal responsibility." Society is all about shared responsibility, and you'd do well to learn that.