carclinic, I think you are a troll, and suspect that you truly love rick santorum, because if you are a ron paul person, then I would make efforts to denounce you and separate myself from your particular brand of self-righteous, eurocentric vitriol. But nonetheless, I will humor you for another moment or two and argue some of the total crap you are dribbling...
Dealing drugs and "protection" are not honest livings. They are seen as ways of making easy money taking advantage of people's problems.
Why is it problematic that one should want to get high? There are cannabis receptors in your brain son- god or evolution installed those to one end- G.E.T. H.I.G.H. That is why they are there. So why would it be some kind of moral riddle to stimulate them? I argue that drug dealers are MORE ETHICAL than regular business people, as they risk their freedom and ignore conventions in order to supply demands that the law deems illegitimate, yet nevertheless persist as human desire. I know I count my dealers among the best people that I know, and they help me more than any other service provider.
It does not mean it should be illegal, but no dope dealer knows more about making "an honest buck" than a regular small business owner who deals with real government regulations that impede us (while the illicit drug trade is unregulated.)
?? Huh? I do not see how you could say that drug dealing is not an honest living, in the sense that it requires individual labor and risk without necessarily violating anyone else's property. On main street, if I want to sell say, bubble gum, I pay rent to a store owner knowing that if anything happens on the property, he is liable- I buy bubble gum from a vendor knowing that if his product is defective, the courts will hear my arguments and award me compensation. I sell bubble gum to customers knowing that I can call the police to protect me from being robbed.
If I sold dubs on main street, I cannot participate in any property ownership relationships, and therefore everything is riskier; my vendor suppliers might sell me poison or nothing, and so I must take care to develop commercial relationships based on personal reputations and endorsements and incentives to fairly honor contracts. If I am cheated, I must rely on my own personal force to make things right and bank on the fact that the other parties can rationally assess the damages I am capable of afflicting, and weighing this against the cost of compensation. My customers can just rob me with impunity, as I am afforded no police protection.
So- what is dishonest about that? How is selling Lottery Tickets inherently more legitimate?
Serial womanizing is immoral, and that is typical of the 70%+ illegitimacy rate of the ghetto. The lack of fatherhood is probably the greatest problem we face.
haha yo man you're gonna hafta have this conversation with your mama, because I bet that you are actually the bastard son of some hypocrite slick-talking bible-salesman. Gtf outta here with that bro- tight-asses have been making this argument since there was monogamy. Obviously not having male role models is not good for a developing child, but to go from that to, "serial womanizing is immoral" is quite a jump- I wager that many of the men you admire are serial womanizers.
'm all about winning votes, but blacks don't hate the state. They are like evangelical Christians. They want an all powerful government to do everything they want, but are all pissed that the state granted such powers F***s them. So, they are no more anti-state then a gay marriage hating Santorum-lover.
if I were to make a list of people that the folks in my neighborhood tend to hate on and avoid/hide from, it would read:
Child Services
Probation Officer
The Judge
The Public Defender
The Police
Teachers and School Faculty
Workers at the DMV
see a pattern?
We need people to wake up and see that the state is incapable of being fair or just. Segregation, slavery, anti-drug laws, bad education---these are all state institutions. The state can only be "good" to you by robbing someone else. If we should have a golden rule for foreign policy, we should have a golden rule for domestic policy. Don't rob from me to pay for you because you wouldn't want me doing that to you. Plain and simple.
exactly dingus...why should this argument not be made to the people that you allege clamor for other people's resources?
However, blacks haven't intellectually reached that point,
haha dont people get banned talking like this? What institution or entity goes around to all black people and assessing the points they can score with intellect?
1. Please try to use correct English, stop pretending you're not white.
hahah wow dude.
you ever hear of Huck Finn?
2. Education is not supposed to be fun all the time. That's just unrealistic nor is it good pedagogy. It just goes along with our shallow shopping mall instant gratification culture.
I dont think anyone has made the argument that tests in black school districts are bad because "school is not fun." The argument is that the tests are made by racist assholes for the purpose of passive-aggressively demonstrating white supremacy. The kids in the school know that and rightly conclude, "fuck state testing and fuck this." They also may observe something like, "Yo everyone I know is unemployed, college, HS diploma- aint no work no matter. Fuck school."
Civility is making an honest living,
a lot of GOP folk put soldiers and cops in the category of honest living makers. The same kinda people who typically dismiss the free market as it survives in unregulated poor neighborhoods. When I need amoxicilin, I buy it in Philly from a girl that also sells weed.
taking care of one's family, helping out one's community, and showing common decency towards people. It does not mean being perfect, but in the ghetto when someone jacks your car its not even a surprise. People just say "wrong place, wrong time." That's BS. People should not be stealing your car, it should not be an expected part of life. We need to have some expectations for ourselves as human beings.
dumb. No one says, "Shit my car is gone- oh well- it was parked in the ghetto. Guess ill find that bus schedule." You are assigning your own steteotypes as real human reactions, when in fact they do not happen that way. My house has been robbed, and nobody in the neighborhood told me, "well you shouldnt live here, duh." We formed patrols and shit, impromptu courts and evidence searches and interrogations.
No, if you have no intellectual curiosity beyond getting your balls off and getting your drink on, then you're a caveman.
My favorite kind of elitism is when people assume personal responsibility for all of the advances that they arbitrarily enjoy despite no contributions to these discoveries in any way at all.
thanks to the people trying to help though- I am still looking for compilations of RP quotes/videos of him talking about the racist rate of incarceration for drug crimes, his reversal of his stance on the death penalty bc of its racist applications, etc. I have seen some good stuff and thought maybe someone has already compiled it for such a target audience.