Is pot smoking evil?!

[Weltall]

Originally posted by A Black Falcon
Sniffing gas is like sniffing paint, or butane, or something... all it does is kill your brain cells. If you do it enough you will end up severely mentally retarded. Quite literally.

As for Marx, I've said it before -- his ideas sound great and would be perfect if not for human nature. I know you are selfish and don't want anyone being equal, but the whole POINT of my argument is that that is EXACTLY what is stopping it from working -- and if people were perfect no one would feel that way!

So it was funny before when your posts in rebuttal to mine just proved my point better. :)

Well, not exactly. See, the reason I don't want everyone equal is that not everyone deserves to be equal. Some people just have natural superiority over others, some being smarter, stronger, faster, more willing to work, or what have you. You could in theory force everyone to be equal but those natural deviances in intelligence and physical prowess would defeat it. It was Karl Marx's idea to make everyone a peasant worker, and to eliminate the hated intellectual, which is an incredibly terrible thing to do. His ideas might have been done in good faith but the fact is, in application and in simple theory they completely suck, partly because inequality is part of human nature, and the flaws in the communist idea itself, that everyone should be equally poor as opposed to equally wealthy. If you want to make a socially equal plane, it would be far more beneficial to strive to make EVERYONE intellectual instead of making everyone a virtual slave drone like Marx envisioned.

Marx's communism, if it matched his vision, would reduce humanity to nothing more than a large ant colony, sans queen, and would rob everyone of their property, sovereignty, and even basic individualism, and of course that would lead to a huge, stagnant culture that would be so fragile that the slightest deviation could bring it down.

If that's Marx's idea of perfect, I'll continue to be a flawed human being and enjoy it's many benefits. Communism is a terrible idea in practice, and a terrible idea in theory, and thank God we're too flawed for it to work :)