A Usenet persona calling itself BCITORGB wrote:

Scott:
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Like I said, her "freedom" is illusionary.

As I said earlier, you confuse equality of outcome with equality of
opportunity.
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In this case, again a matter of semantics. What good is equality of
opportunity if I can't really exercise it?

It's called "freedom" and "personal responsibility." You can exercise it any
time you want to. All you need is the gumption to go out and seize it. If
society just gives gifts to anyone who wants them, there is no incentive to
excel and no motivation to succeed.

Freedom is not an easy or comfortable thing. It requires hard work, personal
sacrifice and occasionally your blood to achieve and maintain, but it's all
the more valuable for that investment.

Chain a dog up long enough and you break its spirit, so that when you
unchain it, it is unable to comprehend freedom and cannot seize it. It will
continue to pace around and around in the same circle it did when it was
chained.

Entitlements and welfare have much the same effect on humans, and it's worse
because it's often a generational debility. It's better to suffer in freedom
that to be mired in comfortable slavery. Entitlements inevitably lead to
obesity of the spirit that chains people to their poverty.

It just makes cynics of
those you promise it to.

Then they don't understand the nature of freedom. That's not my problem.

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Regards,
Scott Weiser

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