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Tomahawk wrote:
paramedic70002 wrote:
Virginiaplanter wrote:
Now is the perfect time for the US to invade Switzerland and claim it as the 51st state. We get all their good chocolate and what are the Swiss going to do about it? They can't shoot us, and their Swiss army knives have wine bottle openers on them. That's the kind of "Army" knife you get from a country that doesn't fight in wars and is neutered, I mean Neutral.
Neutrality has it's upside. I don't recall terrorists attacking the Swiss recently. There's nothing wrong with taking care of the home front and letting the rest of the world alone. When the USA was still wet behind the ears, Washington and Co. refused to assist various European powers in their petty squabbles. The USA was doing just fine until we decided to be a world player, it's been downhill ever since.
I've never understood the mentality of someone who thinks that staying out of trouble and minding your own business makes you a coward.
I agree.
To be honest, I probably would do something to stop a horrible crime if I felt it was within my power.
But, I really don't plan for such unlikely events. And, I avoid getting involved in other's business.
At any rate, the analogy to neutrality is a good one, and it underlines my suggestion that this "sheepdog" mentality is a front for the statist/interventionist philosophy, which is fundamentally incompatible with liberty, I might add.
There's nothing wrong with helping people, and there's nothing wrong with professions which entail helping people (actual security, public or private, fire, what have you), but this "we need to look out for the sheep" mentality is proto-statist to the max.
I don't want to see people hurt if I can easily stop it, but I also don't want to play bodyguard to a bunch of free Americans who should be taking care of their own defense.
Only nanny-tyrants think otherwise.
Edit: OK, I just made that post thinking this was the latest "Sheepdog" thread. I'm going to leave it for it's own sake.
I think I need to stop posting tonight. Too much brew!