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Re: goddam stupid parents Twibil 09-17-2008
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Posted by Twibil on September 17, 2008, 3:06 pm


On Sep 17, 8:49=A0am, Ben Kaufman <spaXm-mXe-anXd-paXy-5000-
doll...@pobox.com> wrote:

> >Somehow, I don't think of Sarah Palin as being a serious theologian.
> >Yet she and those like her would willingly twist their religious
> >beliefs into secular laws and force the rest of us to abide by them.
>
> >All "for our own good", of course.
>
> Of course they think it's for our own good.

You know something? I don't believe for one *moment* that they really
think that. Or ever have.

If psychology -and advertising- have taught us anything at all, it's
that people in general revel in the ability to exert their power on
the rest of the population...a population that they consider "other".
The old cliche about absolute power being absolutely corrupting didn't
become an old cliche without good reason.

The rationalized "it's for your own good" stuff comes as an
afterthought, when those in power need to make themselves feel good
about the things they've done.

Posted by Road Glidin' Don on September 17, 2008, 3:57 pm



> The rationalized "it's for your own good" stuff comes as an
> afterthought, when those in power need to make themselves feel good
> about the things they've done.

Well, that's some real nice, fancy psycho-babble there, but there's a
much simpler, common, concrete setting that explains the origin:
Parents.

Posted by Ben Kaufman on September 19, 2008, 8:09 am


On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:57:02 -0700 (PDT), "Road Glidin' Don"

>
>> The rationalized "it's for your own good" stuff comes as an
>> afterthought, when those in power need to make themselves feel good
>> about the things they've done.
>
>Well, that's some real nice, fancy psycho-babble there, but there's a
>much simpler, common, concrete setting that explains the origin:
>Parents.

Too bad Twibil had snipped down my original but that "feel good" was in regard
to the Inquisition.

Ben

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