RE: A Deficiency of Patriotism?
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Don't forget the folks who want to draft everyone into mandatory "community service" and insist everyone needs to be taxed for "the greater good" while saying the economy is built on "wage slavery."
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I'm not. I've read several articles on the subject, I've written rebuttals to them, and I have another currently in the works. I'll share the link here after I publish it.
Finally published my latest response. It's a wee bit downright hostile, but my patience well dried up a long time ago. There are links within to three separate articles proposing mandatory community service, but also to an article rebuking that idea. The comments section of one such article also saw the author back-peddle on that position, though the weasel later flip-flopped in another article.
Hoo, boy. To argue that because people benefited in some ways from a system to which they never consented, and deliberately overlook the ways they have been harmed by that system, is like arguing slaves benefitted from antebellum chattel slavery. "Look, we fed you, gave you clothes, and provided housing for you as a child. You owe it to the master to contribute back to the plantation." But it's different now because the plantation is bigger, has a flag, and lets you vote for a preselected subset of the ruling class.