tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post4852352805783696662..comments2024-02-21T17:30:40.448-05:00Comments on An Objectivist Individualist: Can Two People be Friends Who Disagree Greatly Politically?Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-91021901604477735282012-01-06T03:47:29.031-05:002012-01-06T03:47:29.031-05:00It had to be hard for the Patriots in many cases t...It had to be hard for the Patriots in many cases to battle the Loyalists when the United States had its War of Independence also. When you live among others, benevolent people will want to find ways to get along with them and to be friendly.<br /><br />Unfortunately, when some of them put a gun to your temple and tell you that they are going to steal 30 hours of your labor each week, force you to pay much more for your electricity so they can pursue pie-in-the-sky schemes for wind and solar energy, make you spend twice as much for a car that will go 54.5 mpg, make you pay for other people's forfeitures of sub-prime mortgages and student loans, claim they own your body and mind so they get to force you to buy a health insurance policy of their choosing, make you pay union wages to many government workers and some private sector workers with government contracts, and the list goes on and on, a liberty-loving man is sore oppressed and downtrodden.<br /><br />It makes one long for the comparatively gentle tyranny of King George III! How restrained we are in our response to this much greater tyranny in comparison!Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-34233343834197610742012-01-05T19:22:30.372-05:002012-01-05T19:22:30.372-05:00'tis a very hard lesson to re-learn as I'm...'tis a very hard lesson to re-learn as I'm sure that most of us (above a certain age) were taught never to discuss Religion or Politics.<br /><br />And now we want to either find out where others stand or "convert" them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07091756095741062361noreply@blogger.com