CCCToad on 17/7/2011 at 07:06
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
Other people are stupid. I want someone to make them act sensibly. I am not stupid, so I don't want anyone interfering with my activities no matter how scatter brained or unwise they might seem. Because I'm not one of the stupid people who needs their hands held.
Have I got the gist?
If responding to me, that is spectacularly wrong.
I think that other people, while very rarely geniuses, generally are capable of making their own decisions more efficiently than those who have no personal stake in their lives and lack familiarity with the situation at hand. I'm sure everyone here has had some instance where management issued a completely insane decision that, if they had ever actually worked at the ground level for, would never have been considered.
For example there's some ridiculous new Escalation of Force rules that seem great for the lawyers, but in reality are going to lead to more innocents being shot.
Even if back at home other people are stupid, its their life to fuck up and I don't feel its my place to use my superior wisdom to force them onto the "right" path. Besides which you can't help those who don't want to be helped.
CCCToad on 17/7/2011 at 09:28
If there was a like button for that post, Scots, I'd press it.
Ulukai on 17/7/2011 at 10:09
Quote Posted by CCCToad
my superior wisdom
Question, Gozer the Gozarian arrives and says: "Are you God?" Yes / No
dexterward on 17/7/2011 at 10:18
What`s this ? A George Orwell quote used in proper context? Well done, suh.
hopper on 17/7/2011 at 11:30
:thumb:
CCCToad on 17/7/2011 at 12:39
Quote Posted by Ulukai
Question, Gozer the Gozarian arrives and says: "Are you God?" Yes / No
Haha....please.
Tocky on 17/7/2011 at 14:05
Quote Posted by CCCToad
For example there's some ridiculous new Escalation of Force rules that seem great for the lawyers, but in reality are going to lead to more innocents being shot.
Even if back at home other people are stupid, its their life to fuck up and I don't feel its my place to use my superior wisdom to force them onto the "right" path. Besides which you can't help those who don't want to be helped.
Aha! THIS is what you were REALLY talking about. I would ask why you took us down back alleys while performing card tricks and drunken dancing bear jigs and why you are in the wrong thread for it but I do the same thing. That's hardly an endorsement of sanity.
And it IS your duty to do all you can to force others onto a path which saves lives. Only then will you not blame yourself later, or not so much anyway. If you have a conscience, which is to say, not a republican.
And :thumb: glslvrfan! Did they push the marble?
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Quote Posted by Tocky
Aha! THIS is what you were REALLY talking about.
Not really, its just one example that comes to mind because I'm familiar with it. My friends who work various civilian jobs all have examples of their own. Point is that bureaucrats who believe they are qualified to make other people's decisions for them usually only think that way because they don't have a fucking clue about how things actually work.
edit: I'd go so far as to say that's a big part of why the US is losing out economically. That bureaucratic mentality hamstrings a lot of our companies compared to foreign companies, and I've known more than one small business that failed because they couldn't afford meet the slew of mandates imposed on them.
Also I take issue with the comment about "card tricks and drunken dancing bear jigs". That's what I do when I'm at the bar, not here.
june gloom on 18/7/2011 at 02:35
Quote Posted by Stitch
I like the one that involves you not posting
