Andrew wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2001, at 22:01, John D. Giorgis wrote:
> >
> > How do you think government workers are chosen? And how do you think
> > that this should be changed.
>
> You want to give power and authority to someone who WANTS it?
> geez :P You want someone who will do a good job.
Sometimes it IS the person that wants it. Are you suggesting forcing those
who don't want to do a job to do it? You obviously haven't seen the
half-a**ed quality of forced work.
I would like to think that the people working in the government are doing a
job because they *like* it. Just like I hope the doctor making
life-or-death decisions about my health care is a doctor because he felt a
strong inner need to be a doctor, and is rewarded beyond his paycheck.
You seem to in this thread and in the one devoted to family size be
advocating dictatorship. If I've got the wrong impression, please correct
me, but statements such as
"Liberty, I argue, is over-rated. It's a term abused today to allow
execcess of all sorts to occur, a term used to protect the
deverstation of this world. It's a shield used by criminals...."
and
"if you can DO the job and well, then you should do it, and nuts to what YOU
want."
and
"And yes, to use the old cliche, I believe that most people are sheep."
give me the heebie-jeebies. Give me liberty tempered by social
consciousness (as in the US, Canada, and other Western democracies), give me
leaders we can throw out if they don't listen to us, and give me a worldview
that credits my fellow human beings with something more than "sheep" status,
thankyouverymuch. You can keep your despotic fantasies.
Adam C. Lipscomb
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