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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 07:04 PM
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If you're a Libertarian who owns a SUV and complains of gas prices...
Edited on Sun Mar-19-06 07:04 PM by HypnoToad
S.T.F.U.

You lot talk about choices and opportunism and invidualism.

Don't waste your time coming to us.

Well, we will have sympathy to an extent - but why would we help those who, if the situation was reversed, let us rot?

Partly because we're Christian (or "Christ-like" to the agnostics out there) and partly because knowing that you got into the situation where you needed someone, you might open up you desert of a mind and let in some fresh air.
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Debau2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 07:32 PM
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1. That is a sweeping generalization!
I am a huge tree-hugging, vegan, save the environment person, but I have an SUV. I have to have something that will pull a horse trailer. When they make a gas saving vehicle or hybrid that can pull a multi-horse trailer I'll buy it! But for now, I buy what will get me where I need to go...
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Crazy Guggenheim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 07:34 PM
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2. Some Libertarians whine when they have to live in their world.
:popcorn:
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ReaderSushi Donating Member (122 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-19-06 07:37 PM
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3. Alas,
There are no libertartians in a natural disaster zone..... or something to that effect.
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