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On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 16:57:30 -0400, Warp wrote:
> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>> > Says the person who compares giving a vaccine to someone to a
>> > totalitarian regime.
>
>> It is if you go out, grab them, stick them with a needle and pump
>> something in them that they only have your word on being good for them.
>
> You clearly don't even understand what a "totalitarian regime" is.
>
> Or rather, you know what it means, but you are using it in the
> completely wrong way just to attack some idea. Same thing as, for
> example, people calling the occupy wallstreet protesters "anarchists"
> (even though the movement couldn't possibly be more the opposite of
> anarchy.)
>
> By your logic someone robbing someone else is "a totalitarian regime".
> Which makes absolutely no sense.
A totalitarian regime is a regime where the leadership says "you will
submit to us". That's not /my/ definition, that's the definition from
the Oxford English Dictionary.
So I'll be trusting that definition rather than any bullshit definition
you decide to use.
If you tell someone "we're doing this for your own good", you are talking
down to them and are treating them like a child. Adults don't do that to
each other.
Jim
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