M a r k D i l l e y

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Dirty Greek: "I got this little bit of shining wisdom from Dirty Greek : 'We should be willing to spend money on our society willingly - we should not be forced to pay for whatever they think we should pay for. If we don't want to pay for certain things, then we don't deserve them. I often hear from people that 'if there were no taxes, we would have no roads, no public schools, etc.' But there's that animal again - it's not that we shouldn't pay for those things, it's that we should willingly pay for them rather than be forced.

Can you imagine walking into a carwash and telling the manager that you want a car wash, but you don't want to pay for it? Everyone else is getting their cars washed there, so why shouldn't you? You just don't want to pay. Well, obviously you have to pay to get your own car washed, but you certainly shouldn't be forced to pay for someone else to get his car washed, should you? Of course not.

You could do that out of the kindness of your heart, but imagine being imprisoned for refusing to pay for another man's car to be washed! That is, of course, insane. Well then, why should I be forced to pay for bombs and armies and a broken 'social security' system if I don't want to take part in it? The answer is simple - I shouldn't. '

Sometimes you're surfing along the internet just reading people's thoughts in a relaxing manner. Then it hits you. In spite of whatever you might see in the daily news, maybe that bright future we've all been expecting really isn't as far away as we all thought.

Occasionally, we can say very intelligent things in the blogosphere. Each of us can lift ourselves up to see above the current political fray even if just for a moment. Done enough times from people from enough perspectives and the world just might get changed in some pleasantly surprising ways."