Most people attain a certain level of maturity that allows them to recognize that an immoral action committed against you does not permit you to commit an immoral action in retribution.
Put in parenting terms: your son comes to you and says, “Katie hit me!”. You ask your daughter if she did indeed hit her brother and she says, “Yes, but he hit me first.” Now, would you say, “Well, ok then.” or would you explain to them that two wrongs don’t make it right?
The conservatives are finally, after 8 long years of neo-con rule, beginning to return to the party platform of a restrained fiscal policy. Are they a little late? definitely. Are they being hypocritical? of course. It the only reason they are doing this because the government is curretly under Democratic control? probably. Does that mean their accusations are totally unfounded? no.
Politics- from the latin roots, Poli (meaning many) and tics (meaning small blood-sucking insects)
While it would have been nice if the Republican party had remembered that fiscal restraint and a non-interventionist policy is a responsible agenda during the Bush administration, their current adherence is a necessary counter-balance to the Democratic agenda of socialization.
7/9/09 9:38 pm
don’t know what else is going to happen. There are times when my mind seems to work on overdrive, usually only the few hours before an assignment is actually due though. Wish that it was something I could turn on and off at will.
7/21/09 9:44 am
my gosh, i can’t believe how incredibly off this class is, wants to talk about economics, science, and mathematics like it’s not a excessively liberal history class
Of course they want to try and isolate any seeming deviance from abosulte truth in the other brances of education, it helps to excuse them of the own relativist attitudes.
want to use the infinitely long value of pi as an ultimate explanation of how mathematics has no absolute truth
7/30/09 2:05 am
I am forced to believe that there are times where it just wouldn’t do to be known by what you truly think. Apparently, opposite my expectations, the staff in the Rasman building (business school) are far more open-minded about differing points of view concerning politics and economic theory, than are the professors in the Academic building (history, english, and foreign languages). How is it that the conservative disciplines have people who can entertain ideas while the die-hard liberal, social-science faculty are the ones that shoot down anything that doesn’t agree with their pre-determined world view?
College is soooo confusing….