I started to write an article a while back that I haven’t quite finished, but will post eventually called My Extreme Views: Things I Strongly Believe In That You Probably Don’t — such as I think you should not be able to hold an elected office in the federal government without having served in the US Military, unless you were physically not capable of serving. In those cases, in lieu of Military service, service as a police officer, fire fighter, paramedic, public school teacher, nurse, or doctor of medicine is acceptable.
Trevor at The Will To Exist has posted his Top Ten Things I Believe list. From his list, these are things that I also feel very strongly about:
10) Some lives are worth more than others.
6) Using force to redistribute income is evil.
5) I am responsible for the consequences of the choices I make.
4) Self-defense is my right and I’m willing to protect myself.
- #10 — You’re damned right. Any US Soldier’s life is worth more than any terrorist’s life. If beating vital information out of a terrorist would save a single US Soldier’s life…well, give me the bat.
- #6 — The sense of entitlement that has risen on the Left blows me away; the sense that they are entitled to my hard-earned money and wealth just because I have more than they do. This is the Democratic party’s driving philosophy: Take from the rich, and give it to those who they think deserve it (despite not earning it).
- #5 — This is closely related to #6. The Left lives in a state of victimization. Nothing that happens to them is their own fault. Instead, it’s easier to blame someone else for their misfortunes…and then demand that someone else pay ($$$$) to compensate (not rectify…they don’t care about fixing the problem…they just want to get paid) them for their problems.
Here’s a hint: If you dropped out of high school when you were 15, had three children before you were 18, spent time in prison for selling drugs and stealing cars, or decided it would be easier to become the third generation in your family to live entirely off of welfare rather than get a job…IT’S NOT MY FAULT that your life sucks.
- #4 — Unlike the “violence never solved anything” pacifists who don’t believe anything is worth fighting for, I believe that there are many things worth fighting, killing, or dieing for. Such as my home, my wife, my family, my personal property, and my country. Threaten any one one of those things, and I’ma get medieval on your ass.
Glad my thoughts spurred some on your part. Note: the link to “I’m a get medieval on your ass!” doesn’t seem to work.
Link fixed.
One of my strongly held beliefs: Almost everything the government does costs money (maybe not declaring National Yam Day or something like that, but just about everything else, and probably National Yam Day would cost money, too)…so in any year when you are a net receiver from the government and not a net contributor (except in case of physical disability), you should get no vote.
I like it and I’d vote for it (as a net contributor every year since the age of 16)
Makrothumeo,
Your solution is simple and elegant, and I’d support it, although I would prefer a society in which there were several pathways to earning citizenship, and only citizens received the vote.
I too am a net contributor.