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I agree that there was no choice. So what? I don't have a problem with that. I recognize that not having a choice is scary, but I find it foolish to base a wo

• vy8vWJlco 13y ago
  "..., and the pursuit of happiness." If not having choice is scary (your word), which I would say is a synonym for "undesirable", I cannot be said to have the right to pursue happiness without it (choice). > "I find it foolish to base a worldview off fear." The only sense in which I'm basing my worldview "off of" fear is by asserting the right not to live in it. (In that sense, I am also basing my worldview off of starvation - as I am eating breakfast.)
  • saraid216 13y ago
    ...is your claim really going to come down to, "Taxes make me unhappy"? Because that's what I'm seeing: "Taxes are either an incentive or a threat." -> "Taxes are a threat because I did not choose them." -> "Taxes stymie my pursuit of happiness."