Dak
mentat
Mathiäs;9936492 said:So with your logic: compromise = slavery?
I very specifically stated that was no the case in the previous post.
Mathiäs;9936492 said:And I supported DADT repeal, because it's not like flaming faggots are going to rush to join anyway. I'm just happy to not be in danger of getting kicked out anymore. The whole "battlefield readiness will suffer" argument is total bullshit too.
"Battlefield readiness" is one of those wonderfully vague terms politicians (generals are included as politicians) like to use.
I brought up DADT specifically because it was a great example of political compromise. Regardless of it's affect on the military, the general consensus is it is wrong to descriminate in any way/shape/form based on sexual preference. You were not happy with this compromise, because it was still wrong.
The same is the case in any more or less restrictive form of government. They are all compromises, or a "deal with the devil" in a manner of speaking.
Laizze Faire doesn't work, socialism doesn't work, so we have to stay relatively close to the middle.
This assumes these ideals are extremes on a linear scale. We also haven't had a free market economy in the US, and a state is rather anathema to the market.
The reason I brought up compromise (besides all the propaganda on the news regarding the debt deal), was that these are not extremes on a linear scale, but two of many different types of ideals/philosophies about life.
Your logic seems rather flawed in light of this reality, to "stay in the middle" of two ideas you claim don't work, would most likely produce a bastard child which doesn't work. The U.S. is a great example of this bastard child, and it doesn't work.
However, it doesn't fail due to the capitalistic injections, but due completely to all affects of the state. The banks were able to game the system to ruin the economy only due to the Federal Reserve/fractional reserve system, which exist/get their power because of the state.
Compromise with something that is wrong is no compromise at all.