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Southerly: A Blog on Behalf of an…, in reply to Warren Clark,
That people tend to place their own welfare (and that of groups they identify with) above that of others, even if they are a tiny minority.
Hope you dont mind if just pick that apart.
By welfare do you mean how monetarily well off they are? The level of physical comfort they enjoy? Welfare is an awfully broad term.
At certain rare stages of human development there was an ability to look past the group identification rationale and look at the health of the whole society, the involvement people had in the society they lived in. But they were all too rare. And getting rarer as societies grew bigger. But that is no reason why it cant happen on a large scale.
Certainly at present, because certain forms of thinking have held for too long a sway over those in positions of government and business, the "minority" view is deciding how policy/laws are enacted. And the slackness of the certain media has helped this to happen. It just means its time to change that.
Government is not some kind of arcane mystery, the more people are involved in it the better. Some of David's grandfathers ideas are very sound. The danger may be getting people who arent dazzled by the "baubles, bangles and beads" Oh and the dizzying heights as well I suppose, like many of the current crop of those who consider themselves Big Cheeses
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Southerly: A Blog on Behalf of an…, in reply to Warren Clark,
human nature being what it is.
And what is it in your opinion?
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Legal Beagle: Fact Check: New Bail Laws, in reply to Brent Jackson,
why ?
The way Al Swearengen sez it, it is.
You watched Deadwood?
And I'm sure your friends are lovely people... -
statement taking credit for the law as it was during the previous government. And that just seems wrong.
I'm channelling Al Swearengen here
'Cocksuckers' -
Field Theory: Boos 'n' All, in reply to Peter Darlington,
It’s just a bit of Saturday theatre after all.
Or as that monotonal virtually monosyllabic overpaid arse puts it
"We're not playing tiddlywinks. It's a man's game and I think sometimes we get a wee bit carried away."
So the measure of a "man" (in his overstuffed opinion) is an ability to play a game. Doesnt matter about the rest of his life, it seems, according to this cretin.
These people get to much of our attention and money. Find something better to do with your time. -
Some distinguished New Zealanders did try and tell Key this, but they were all dismissed in scattergun attacks on their virtue, assisted gracelessly by his Attorney-General Chris Finlayson during the bill’s Third Reading Debate. God and sin seemed to have caused its own rot there, but never mind, if Peter Dunne wasn’t such a ‘willing seller’ of his vote he could have prevented the bill from passing by such a wafer thin margin.
All of this says we need to do something startling if this country is even going to start having a unique future. Dunno what G&s have to do with anything, but something other than knee jerking based on a political point of view and showing some depth intellectually and emotionally, from those who somehow rose to positions of influence, would be welcome. Rather than proving the old adage true over and over again "Shit floats"
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Sez the Keyster
"If I could disclose some of the risks and threats from which our security services protect us,"
Mealy-mouthed BS if ever I heard it.
"If I could"...What! You'd have to kill us? Your expecting an invasion any minute now.
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change the entirety of human socialisation
A few changes in this country are long overdue
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Hard News: The GCSB Bill: eleventh-hour arguments, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
still he has a parliamentary pension
and all that free travel to look forward to…Wish he didnt, its certainly undeserved
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Hard News: The GCSB Bill: eleventh-hour arguments, in reply to TracyMac,
that Kerre McIvor column
She'd probably had a wine or 3...