Originally Posted by
Hunter
alinwa, you're clueless, thinking you owe society NOTHING and that you "know.....absolutely know where [I] stand on this [i.e., so-called self-made men]." I'll try to make it simple for you, follow along closely.
This AM I ran across the river on a bridge that was funded primarily by society (i.e., other people, such as taxpayers, friends, and relatives), of which only a miniscule/minuscule part of the cost came out of my pocket. On that same trip, I stopped at some similarly-funded traffic lights. Later, I drove to the post office on some similarly-funded roads to put something in the mail that will be delivered by a similarly-funded outfit. Wake up, look around you -- and think outside the box in which you're stuck. You're reading this, in part, because society has/is fronting a lot of the expense of "Al Gore's" internet. Your business would be dead-in-water without the benefit of some things funded primarily by society. You've enjoyed air travel in the past, surely you don't think you paid the full cost of that yourself -- with no contribution from society.
So, do you and I owe anything to society? I think so, because society has given to both of us far more than you realize -- thus, no one is a self-made man.
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