Reply #55: No, you assumption is not correct...and our society is in no way, shape or form

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based on the 'common good'. I look around me, and that's not what I see at all. I see a cruel and unenlightened culture that is seeking only to exploit misfortune, not to buffer or curtail it.

I think it would be great to live in a society where the culture was such that we took care of one another. That is simply not the case, however. For all the warm fuzzy BS, this is a cut-throat culture. I'm simply trying to look out for myself (I don't 'have' mine by any stretch), because I know that society doesn't give a rat's ass if I live or die. This society's concern for me goes only so far as I can provide a revenue stream.

Don't kid yourself. There is no one in the government who has your best interest in mind.