Comments on: Equal Before the Law

By: Incentives to Get Off Welfare » Pursuit of Liberty

Incentives to Get Off Welfare » Pursuit of Liberty — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:39:52 +0000

Another spinoff from the discussion about Equality Under the Law clicked a switch in my brain. [...]

By: What Do You Expect? » Pursuit of Liberty

What Do You Expect? » Pursuit of Liberty — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:13:57 +0000

What started as a post about Equality Before the Law grew into a discussion about the role of government in helping our fellow men. [...]

By: Anti-PC Infidel

Anti-PC Infidel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:58:27 +0000

Okay, I’ll explain it one more time over there, then I’m done. I can only spend so much time explaining the same things over and over and over and over and over again.

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:30:48 +0000

Thanks.

By: alliegator

alliegator — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:28:59 +0000

Thanks for putting in that link- I thought I had included one in my comment.

I haven’t even looked at the settings on my blog in a long time, I’ll see what I can do so everyone can comment.

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:22:44 +0000

For anyone interested in following the conversation on Alliegator's post it can be found here. ~~Unfortunately, Alliegator does not allow anonymous comments (which in blogger-speak means anything less than Google/Blogger authentication).~~ Alliegator, consider this a request for you to open up comments at least to OpenID even if not allowing anonymous comments.

By: alliegator

alliegator — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:18:26 +0000

I don’t want to continue to post things so off-topic here, so I started a post on my blog- if Infidel wants to explain (nicely please) why my political philosophy is against the plan of salvation, I truly and interested in his reasoning.

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:52:08 +0000

Alliegator,

Thanks for your concern. Although the comments have veered away from the original topic at times and the tone of the comments has been flippant (in the words of Infidel) at times, I have to admit that it is nice to see commentors engaging with each other instead of expecting that every thought on the site must be run through me as the site owner and author. That does not happen often enough at a little site like mine.

I sincerely hope that nobody has been offended by my hands-off approach. And I hope that none of you choose to avoid my site in the future.

By: alliegator

alliegator — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:44:48 +0000

Would you really like for me to go through each of your insults, I mean “points” and show you how they are insulting?

How about we move on.

I do not require “handling” or “sugar coating”, I do appreciate courtesy. (also, I am not a son, or a liberal in the way you imply)

I am interested why you think that my political philosophy “is in violent opposition to the foundation of the Plan of Salvation”.

I don’t see it that way, also the church doesn’t say “free agency” any more. There is a cost. We could let the government stop taxing and all services, to let us have more agency, but the cost for me is a bit too high.

By: Anti-PC Infidel

Anti-PC Infidel — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:30:53 +0000

I’ve read through my comments, and I don’t really see anything that could reasonably be considered an insult (and that’s not a reaction I get from anybody else I interact with on a regular basis), but if you say you were insulted, I’ll believe you, and once more say I’m sorry.

Maybe it’s a cultural thing. Or maybe it’s because I’m such a cold-hearted, unemotional fellow. Either way, I’ll try to be more gentle in my handling of you in the future.