The Glade 4.0

There's a big difference between being physically an adult and mentally an adult.

You get treated based on your mental ability.

And that goes equally in both directions.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Nah, that's how "elders" interpret the phrase paternal scorn when their faculties are on the downward slope and they are desperately trying to prove their opinions are relevant, when the only thing backing them is an extra decade breathing.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Experience doesn't always win, but that's where the smart money gets placed.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Hey Michael:

Your bullshit doesn't really phase me, and since you have decided you just want to instigate **** I'll be sure to keep that in mind for the future.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Once upon a time Micheal was considered a fair and wise poster but in recent years he has moved decidedly into the "grumpy old man" position akin to the grandpa in the corner who yells at passing kids about the price of bread in his day.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

An excess of annoying kids will make any old man grumpy.

Dude, you just did an end-around the entire discussion and declared one side to be true and the other side false.

The whole point of a majority of posts in this thread (well, majority of constructive-ish posts in this thread) have revolved around the question of whether rights are inherent or created by communities (or through majority, might, etc), and why.

It's like entering an hour long debate over which cheese is better, cheddar or swiss, and declairing "oh, no - cheddar is better". Um, ok, why?

Well one, because its chedder. Two because you get more cheese per slice (the holes in swiss are attemts at liberal cheese distribution) and three chedder can be used in many dishes while swiss has limited uses.

I mean duh stop being obtuse Monty... err Arathin. ;p

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill