Statements that start with “all” or “always” are usually wrong.
All killing is wrong.
It sounds great. “Thou shall not
kill.” Problem is, sometimes it is
necessary. And the thing is, no one
really disagrees … but still lots of folks say that abortion is wrong simply because
it involves killing. It might be wrong,
but if so it is because it is not an instance when we can justify killing and
not because it involves killing.
All taxes are bad. This
sounds great too, until you realize that without taxes there is no collective
and no society. If we don’t contribute
to the collective, why should we have a collective? And, for the record … the Boston Tea Party
was about taxation WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
Just so you know, we have representation now.
Anything now done by the government could be more
effectively done by private enterprise. The
free market is always the answer. This
is all silliness. It is hard to see how
anybody could believe any of this. It is
clear that the key to economic success is a partnership between government and
business, and instead of wasting our time in the realm of absolute silliness,
we should be talking about what the ideal nature of this collaboration should
be. As far as the free market goes, that
was debunked long ago as the ideal solution to every problem. Need I say “child labor’ or Upton Sinclair?
All Muslims are terrorists in waiting. The truth is, if you are going to go with
this than there are some equally unflattering things we ought to say about
Christians. And we better not get started
on all White Folks.
I think you get the idea.
The world has a bit of nuance to it.
It can be frustrating, but it is the truth. Dealing with the truth, leads us to
cooperation, collaboration, compromise, and solutions. Living in a black and white fantasy world
leads to self righteous satisfaction and one impasse after the other. I’ll take the truth, at least most of the
time.
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