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14 comments:
Here's where the truth about me comes out: I'm a Republican at heart (in the old-school sense of what the Grand Old Party USED to be -- as I've said before, those who have co-opted the name over the last two and a half decades are an abomination and a disgrace and have sullied the party's reputation beyond recognition). Also, if you threaten me or those whom I love, I will do everything in my power to destroy you, no questions asked.
I consider myself an Independent. But I definitely gave the Republican answer to that one. If some attacker (Islamic or not) came at me and my kids (when I have them) that attacker would have to face his maker. Um, yeah, and afterwards I would ask some questions about the situation.
Well, I find it interesting because more than striking me as "democratic," the so-called Democrat response is actually Gospel-based Christianity.
Thanks for posting this!
I just posted it myself!
Believe it or not, I came out as a Southern Republican. The more lead I can pump in to a terrorist, the better!
I really don't see how being the victim of a violent crime is part of gospel based Christianity? When Jesus spoke about turning the other cheek he referred to instances of religious persecution. Refusing to defend oneself in a situation like that is only going to cause the death of innocent people. I applaud you for thinking about the good of the neighborhood and the message you are sending, but it won't do the neighborhood any good if the person who came up with all those good questinos is dead.
Maybe I've just read too much J.J. Bittenbinder or something . . .
BANG! -- but to incapacitate, not to kill. I am an expert shot, after all.
Yes, but you know, look at the language used to describe the "Democrat" position. The question is not really, "Do you kill or let yourself and your family be killed?" If it were, the joke would be that the Republican goes "bang" and the Democrat just gets killed.
Instead, what they are mocking is the empathetic, intellectual response to problem solving. Read the joke again.
They are ridiculing patience, sympathy, introspection, consideration of multiple options/points of view, respect for law, consideration of potential unintended consequences, and the viewing of single incidents in the context of larger problems, not to mention respect for the sanctity of life. Remember, in the stem cell debate, George W. Bush went on record as saying he believes no life should be harmed for the benefit of another. If only conservatives really believed that.
I did catch myself wondering how long the street was- I think the joke was poorly worded to express the urgency of the situation BUT...
I would trip him (low center of gravity works in my favor!) and then break his fingers.
It's a Lebanese thing :)
Hold it Andy! This joke is pro-Republican. Obviously there is no true wisdom in hesitating to kill the man who seeks to take your life. As for stem cells, this analogy proves nothing: You cannot compare a growing embryo to a terrorist. A terrorist is not innocent, you know what your getting with a terrorist or a murderer on death row (Virtually no potential for good exists). With an embryo, you can never tell whether you it will become the next Mother Teresa or Martin Luther King Jr., so there is no inconsistancy at all. If one poses a threat to you and your family, you must kill them first.
And how did Jesus respond to the people who came to take His life?
God, if sexuality issues weren't enough. Now, you have to give me political ideology issues too?!
l-c: Go watch Dead Man Walking over your Thanksgiving break. (NB: No one should make any assumptions as to my views on capital punishment based on that request.)
Just for the record Andy, Jesus was dying for a purpose. That purpose was to bring us back to the father. But remember he also used a whip...A WHIP... to chase the moneychangers from the temple. Jesus died because it was his duty, nothing more, nothing less. He begged his Father in the garden to take this duty from him, his Father would not, so he did what was required. And how screwed up is it that Adam had to disobey his Father for us to get here in the first place, just so his older brother Jesus could obey later by dying?
Yes, and I find it instructive that Jesus didn't take up a whip to go after homosexuals or adulterers or people of other religions. What really pissed him off was the finance industry.
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