My Favorite Comments

I’m going to start posting my favorite comments or emails that you, our readers, have made over the past week. If I see a great comment or email from you, I will add it to my weekly “Favorite Comments” post. This week:

Goosedyou said:

Unfortunately too many politicians and other civic leaders are in the same position. They care about themselves and their causes more than they care about the Country that gives them the freedom to have that cause! As we continue to internally self-destruct and externally fight wars to "preserve and or establish freedom," we have become as Rome of old, self indulgent, full of hypocrisy and rot, and the Pharisees, whited sepulchers filled with dead men's bones.

Can any of this be reversed or are we on an inevitable course of self destruction and the eventual downfall of what we hold so dear?

 

lalaislandia said:

You know, when my can opener didn't work I threw it in the garbage.  When my cat was hit by a car, I put it to sleep.  When the integrity of data is compromised, I delete it.  If a person is too sick to function in society, maybe they don't need to be here either.  Saying you are crazy does not change the fact that you did something wrong.  I am not extremely conservative or liberal, I am a pretty middle ground kind of a person, and I think that anything in excess is not good.  I really do think that balance is important in life, and that without it, it is too easy for people's extremeties (behaviorally speaking of course) to back fire and smack us right in the face.  But, when a certain line is crossed, someone (who is balanced, hopefully) needs to take a stand and say "Hey, this is wrong, this is too far, we must put our foot down and take a stance on this."  Someone needs to have the courage to say "No.  That is not allowed, and there is a consequence for it."  Right now, the rights system protects people who are using that side of their brain, --the right side--.  If someone is coming from a different place, say out of some psychotic episode from serial-killers-&-rapists-anonymous, then maybe they need to be dealt with on their own terms.  Just as they refuse to accept and tolerate normalcy, maybe we should refuse to accept and tolerate them...  The problem is only a psycho has the guts to take out another psycho.  I believe that 'normal' people (loosely defined here) have the innards to come back with equal force to match and overtake those who are extremely violent, sexually deviant and in other words just plain 'bent on destruction'. Maybe I am mistaken? Speak to me.