Nicholas Conrad

“Doing time” seems a bit harsh for petty vandalism. He should pay for the status and get some community service.

Yeah, you can’t apeal to “society has decided X” as an argument, if you also hold that half the people in society don’t count because you disagree with them. That’s actually the opposite of what ‘society’ means in that context.

US healthcare costs substantially higher than other developed nations, and our outcomes are not commensurateely higher; they lag behind many countries with much lower healthcare outlays. I would say consistently spending more to get less is a very good definition of “subpar”.

“Free” healthcare to everyone who makes it to US soil is like the old joke: “we lose money on every sale, but don’t worry, we’ll make it up in volume.”

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.

—Margaret Thatcher

Does it not strike you as odd to say “we as a society want X, except for [approximately half of the people in our society who want the opposite of X]”?