Breathed has hit the target dead center. This is what happens when the government inflicts itself on the people and tries to legislate social equality and happiness. Leave people alone and they’ll eventually sort it out for themselves.
The private sector gets its licks in as well. See (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10372447-71.html) - the Calgary Craigslist ad has, sadly, been flagged for removal, but was looking for a volunteer (for $25,000) to take a trip to Titan. The only hitch; not enough fuel for the return!
melvinthebarbarian, what in the world does putting a man in space have to do with social engineering? I’m very proud of NASA and their accomplishments. I’m not at all proud of what our government has done in trying to control our lives and tell us how to act and live. The more they try the worse they make things for all of us - not to mention what it costs in wasted tax dollars. You simply can’t legislate social behavior. Society has to figure that out for themselves - and eventually they do. Government’s foibles in this area was the point of Breathed’s cartoon.
Actually, you CAN legislate social behavior; what do you think the Ten Commandments are all about?
It simply isn’t true that left to themselves, people sort things out. People keep on proving otherwise all over the world. But neither will big groups of people (governments, etc.) sort things out on their own, and for the same reason. Think: if your thesis were really true, then the world would be and always would’ve been much, much different.
“Goverment” isn’t the problem. “Legislation” isn’t the problem. The problem is man’s natural hostility to law, and to God’s Law in particular. If anything, law of any kind tends to provoke human nature to be antinomian; that doesn’t make law a bad thing. It doesn’t matter whether you’re wielding the power or are subject to the power - unless you deal with that truth head-on, you’re going to have problems.
You know, Rakkav, the problem with you bible thumpers is that, for all you claims of faith, you assume a very negative attitude which leaves you with no faith in your fellow man. I submit that if you compare the good done in the world by humanists and compare that to the good done in the world done by you religious types you’ll find the humanists win out hands down. Certain humanists have not committed genocide, rape, torture and other grievous crimes against their fellow men in the name of religion and all religious types are guilty of just that. While you assume you are correct and the rest of humanity are wrong, quite the opposite is true.
I’ve about decided that from a science aspect, the Hubble telescope is a much greater accomplishment than the moon landing. The latter was a glorified drag race with the Russians. Let’s take care of the Earth before man goes back into deep space.
Yes, the government put a man on the moon fifty years ago. Let’s see, Morton Thiokol, General Dynamics, Bell Aerospace, Ford Aerospace, Chrysler Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics, Boeing, Hughes Electronics, Rockwell International, Raytheon, Honeywell, TRW. Those are just some of the private sector companies the government called in to make that moon shot work. The government does not create things. It buys things from private sector vendors.
rayannina about 15 years ago
Wait a sec – if she’s headless, how can she …
… y’know what, never mind. I don’t want to know.
Sisyphos about 15 years ago
Won’t there be problems with the helmet of her flight suit? And what about headless housewives of other religions?
jrbj about 15 years ago
Breathed has hit the target dead center. This is what happens when the government inflicts itself on the people and tries to legislate social equality and happiness. Leave people alone and they’ll eventually sort it out for themselves.
pbarnrob about 15 years ago
The private sector gets its licks in as well. See (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10372447-71.html) - the Calgary Craigslist ad has, sadly, been flagged for removal, but was looking for a volunteer (for $25,000) to take a trip to Titan. The only hitch; not enough fuel for the return!
melvinthebarbarian about 15 years ago
@jrbj – yeah, but the government put a man in space fifty years ago … how’s the private sector doing there, eh?
jrbj about 15 years ago
melvinthebarbarian, what in the world does putting a man in space have to do with social engineering? I’m very proud of NASA and their accomplishments. I’m not at all proud of what our government has done in trying to control our lives and tell us how to act and live. The more they try the worse they make things for all of us - not to mention what it costs in wasted tax dollars. You simply can’t legislate social behavior. Society has to figure that out for themselves - and eventually they do. Government’s foibles in this area was the point of Breathed’s cartoon.
Rakkav about 15 years ago
Actually, you CAN legislate social behavior; what do you think the Ten Commandments are all about?
It simply isn’t true that left to themselves, people sort things out. People keep on proving otherwise all over the world. But neither will big groups of people (governments, etc.) sort things out on their own, and for the same reason. Think: if your thesis were really true, then the world would be and always would’ve been much, much different.
“Goverment” isn’t the problem. “Legislation” isn’t the problem. The problem is man’s natural hostility to law, and to God’s Law in particular. If anything, law of any kind tends to provoke human nature to be antinomian; that doesn’t make law a bad thing. It doesn’t matter whether you’re wielding the power or are subject to the power - unless you deal with that truth head-on, you’re going to have problems.
Sherlock Watson about 15 years ago
She claims to be a headless housewife, but I think she’s just talking out of her @ss.
jrbj about 15 years ago
You know, Rakkav, the problem with you bible thumpers is that, for all you claims of faith, you assume a very negative attitude which leaves you with no faith in your fellow man. I submit that if you compare the good done in the world by humanists and compare that to the good done in the world done by you religious types you’ll find the humanists win out hands down. Certain humanists have not committed genocide, rape, torture and other grievous crimes against their fellow men in the name of religion and all religious types are guilty of just that. While you assume you are correct and the rest of humanity are wrong, quite the opposite is true.
artybee about 15 years ago
I’ve about decided that from a science aspect, the Hubble telescope is a much greater accomplishment than the moon landing. The latter was a glorified drag race with the Russians. Let’s take care of the Earth before man goes back into deep space.
MisngNOLA about 15 years ago
Yes, the government put a man on the moon fifty years ago. Let’s see, Morton Thiokol, General Dynamics, Bell Aerospace, Ford Aerospace, Chrysler Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, McDonnell Douglas, General Dynamics, Boeing, Hughes Electronics, Rockwell International, Raytheon, Honeywell, TRW. Those are just some of the private sector companies the government called in to make that moon shot work. The government does not create things. It buys things from private sector vendors.
Edit for capitalization on Rockwell International