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Originally Posted by Leondros
Ya, but isn't everything like winning a lotto? Living in Canada? Good looks? Intelligence? Skin color? Height? Gender?
Where does it stop?
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There's no easy answer to that. But at some point we have to realize that those in positions of greatest wealth & privileged need to help those who are in positions of less wealth & privilege. If we don't structure our society around that principle, all we have is a plutocracy.
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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Why do you bother responding? For someone with a Mathgod user name, you'd expect an analytical mind (unless it was in jest). His long ramblings about the doom of humanity in another thread were so childish, I thought he's just a kid, but he said he wasn't. Unfortunately, this means he is simply clueless.
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Once upon a time, a person would be dismissed as stupid & childish for suggesting that slavery should be abolished. Fast forward a bit, any person who suggests that child labor be prohibited is dismissed as stupid & childish. Fast forward to today, anyone who cites climate science is dismissed as stupid & childish. So go on, keep calling people like us childish & stupid... it's a sign that maybe you're the thing you accuse us of being.
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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
Living in Canada is like having won the lottery relative to everywhere else we could have been born. 100%.
Egads, what an ass you are!
You don't have to be born into money to actually get an inheritance. My parents aren't loaded, but they worked their asses off and I'll get something. Not a lot, but something. Not enough to retire off of or even pay off my house, but perhaps something that would make a decent retirement savings contribution. Why would I be okay with that being arbitrarily taxed all of a sudden when everyone who came before me got it tax-free?
You think I'm ignoring what you're saying but I'm not. It's just that your arguments don't have the persuasive or explanatory power you think they do.
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A lot of people inherit nothing at all. No decent retirement savings contribution, nothing. What about them?