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Roknrandy
Roknrandy
16 years ago

Jack, Thank you for your honesty and comments on today’s show. This is in the top 5 on my show list

Chris
Chris
16 years ago

The idea of voting for the lesser of two evils needs to end. But so too does the idea that voting for candiates other than the Repub or Democrat is throwing your vote away.

Garry Nelson
16 years ago

You did it again…
I was moved by what you talked about, about us doing what we know to be right and good for our country…
Thanks Jack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
your one crazy dude but I like it….
Keep up the good work…
Garry

Woahhs
Woahhs
16 years ago

Love the show Jack, but don’t kid yourself… you are just as prejudiced and narrow minded as any of those you criticize: you’re just more verbally adroit than most of them.

A shared moral and ethical foundation is the basis of any social contract. Your unilateral declaration of what will and will not effect our lives predicated on your own moral relativism is as self-serving as any other libertarian.

Every libertarian says “mind your own business,” but none of them can ever agree on where the “your own business” line belongs.

Many years ago, the Pope predicted what would happen in society as a result of the widespread acceptance of birth control. History has shown his insights, prescient. Today, no one can seriously make the claim this moral issue had no effect on their lives.

In closing, I just want to tell you I appreciate your insight, passion, and patriotism, but please stop criticizing those of us who disagree with you on the import of moral issues. And for pete sake, stop patting yourself on the back for your commitment to reasoned argument… your refusal to accept the idea of marriage in any context but the religious is categorically undeniable proof “reason” may be your offense, but it’s sure not your defense.

Woahhs
Woahhs
16 years ago

“I am sorry but I plan on stopping nothing as this is my show and is presented as “one man’s opinion”.”

Not so. You may use the “one man’s opinion” as a caveat, but you present it as conclusion. “I never claimed to be perfect” only carries weight when you can admit to a tangible error. There is nothing more self-serving than being “only human” in principle, but not in practice. So no, I don’t think that’s fair. I think it would be “fair” if you gave me the same qualifiers you give when speaking to democrats who you similarly disagree with.

Similarly, calling people like myself (and dodging it by chalking it up to “government”) “oppressive” because we don’t like the idea of redefining the institution of marriage any more than we like having the rights of parent redefined by neo-puritans, is upsetting AND unfair.

Your use of typical liberal canards like slavery and stoning to support your position is as ill applied as “no blood for oil.” It makes a good sound-bite so you can go on to more interesting things as long as there is no one questioning the particulars of your application.

You are obviously an extraordinarily bright and discerning guy. What I can’t figure out is how you can see the deleterious effect on society of those who refuse to shoulder their responsibility to be informed about their own governance, but seem to believe that opinions on “right and wrong” have no more effect on recovering America than china patterns.

“I also think birth control is a good thing and I am sure glad people are using it. And I can say it has not negatively effected me in anyway.”

Again, the libertarian ambiguity. We are the only Western nation not shrinking demographically. Western civilization is being replaced from the inside by non-western immigrants imported to fill the servant classes of dying western democracies…and those immigrants are not assimilating.

My friend, you are being negatively effected. You just don’t recognize it because you have defined it as a non-issue in the same way others don’t bother to vote because they’ve defined all politicians as “crooks.”