【金句】Thomas Sowell - If you believe in equal rights, then what do 'women's rights,' 'gay rights,'...
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If you believe in equal rights, then what do 'women's rights,' 'gay rights,' etc. mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.
如果你相信平等權益，那麼「婦女權益」、「同性戀權益」等又代表什麼意思？要麼它們是多餘的，要麼它們違反了所有人平等權益的原則。
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Random thoughts on the passing scene:
Many people take pride in defying the conventions of society. Those conventions of society are also known as civilization. Defying them wholesale means going back to barbarism. Barbarians with electronic devices are still barbarians.
After the government shutdown crisis, the one thing that Congressional Democrats and Republicans finally agreed on was to kick the can down the road a few more months, so that we can go through all this again — and perhaps again after that.
One of the best peace speeches I ever read was one delivered back in the 1930s — by Adolf Hitler! He knew that peace speeches would keep the Western democracies from matching his military buildup with their own, or attacking him to prevent his buildup from continuing. Peace speeches by Iran today serve the same purpose of buying time — until they can create a nuclear bomb.
President Obama really has a way with words, such as calling the problems that millions of people have had trying to sign up for ObamaCare "glitches." When the Titanic sank, was that a "glitch"?
Among the painful signs of our time are TV programs built around paternity tests. Apparently the way these women live, it is anybody's guess who their child's father might be.
Don't you love it when a politicians says, "I take full responsibility"? Translated into plain English, that says, "Now that I have admitted it, there is nothing more for me to do (such as resign) and nothing for anyone else to do (such as fire me)." Saying "I take full responsibility" is like a get-out-of-jail-free card in the Monopoly game.
No one seems as certain that they know what the Republicans need to do to win presidential elections as those Republicans who have lost presidential elections, such as Mitt Romney, John McCain and Bob Dole. Moreover, people take them seriously, and seem not to notice that what the losers advocate is the opposite of what won Ronald Reagan two landslide election victories.
If you believe in equal rights, then what do "women's rights," "gay rights," etc., mean? Either they are redundant or they are violations of the principle of equal rights for all.
One of the painfully sobering realizations that come from reading history is the utter incompetence that is possible among leaders of whole nations and empires — and the blind faith that such leaders can nevertheless inspire among the people who are enthralled by their words or their posturing.
The one thing that the national debt ceiling does not do is put a ceiling on the national debt. It just provides political melodrama when the existing ceiling is repeatedly raised to accommodate ever higher spending.
Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?
President Obama said to the world that Bashar Assad's days as ruler of Syria are numbered. All our days are numbered but Assad will probably still be ruling Syria on Obama's last day in the White House.
Parole is just another way of lying to the public — in this case, lying about the time that convicted criminals will spend behind bars. Suspended sentences are another form of make-believe punishment to mollify the public.
Writing about the Habsburg Empire, distinguished British historian Paul Johnson said, "Every reform created more problems than it solved." That was not peculiar to the Habsburg Empire. The same could be said of modern welfare states, and especially our own ObamaCare.
Because many of us make mistakes that can have bad consequences, some intellectuals believe that it is the role of government to intervene and make some of our decisions for us. From what galaxy government is going to hire creatures who do not make mistakes is a question they leave unanswered.
One of the reasons it has taken so long for some people to finally see through Barack Obama is that people do not like to admit, even to themselves, that they have been played for fools by a slick-talking politician.
隨意談談過眼雲煙：
許多人以挑戰社會規範為榮。這些社會規範也稱為文明。全面挑戰它們意味著回歸野蠻。手持電子設備的野蠻人依然是野蠻人。
在政府關門危機之後，國會民主黨人和共和黨人唯一一致同意的一件事是將問題推遲幾個月，以便我們可以再次經歷所有這些，甚至可能之後再次經歷。
我讀過的最好的和平演講之一是在20世紀30年代由阿道夫·希特勒發表的！他知道和平演講會讓西方民主國家不去匹配他的軍事建設，或攻擊他以阻止他的建設繼續。伊朗今天發表的和平演講起著同樣的買時間的作用，直到他們可以製造出核彈。
奧巴馬總統真的很會說話，例如將數百萬人在嘗試註冊奧巴馬醫改時遇到的問題稱為「故障」。《泰坦尼克號》沉沒時，那是「故障」嗎？
我們這個時代的痛苦徵兆之一是圍繞親子鑑定測試構建的電視節目。顯然，這些女性的生活方式使得任何人都可以猜測她們孩子的父親是誰。
當政客說「我承擔全責」時，你是否很喜歡？用簡單的英語翻譯，這意味著「既然我已經承認了，我沒有更多要做的事（例如辭職），別人也沒有什麼要做的事（例如開除我）」。說「我承擔全責」就像《大富翁》遊戲中的免費脫獄卡。
似乎沒有人像那些失去總統選舉的共和黨人那樣，對共和黨贏得總統選舉需要做什麼如此確定，例如米特·羅姆尼、約翰·麥凱恩和鮑勃·多爾。此外，人們認真地聽取他們的建議，似乎沒有注意到他們所提倡的與羅納德·里根贏得兩次壓倒性選舉勝利所做的恰恰相反。
如果你相信平等權益，那麼「婦女權益」、「同性戀權益」等又代表什麼意思？要麼它們是多餘的，要麼它們違反了所有人平等權益的原則。
從閱讀歷史中獲得的痛苦清醒的認識之一是整個國家和帝國領導人可能存在的極度無能，以及這種領導人可以盲目地激發被他們言語或姿態迷住的人民的忠誠。
國家債務上限唯一不做的事情是對國家債務設限。它只是在現有上限被一再提高以適應不斷增加的支出時提供的政治戲劇。
那些想要「傳播財富」的人幾乎總是尋求集中權力。這在太多的國家發生得太頻繁，不可能是巧合。財富不平等還是權力集中更危險？
奧巴馬總統對世界說，巴沙爾·阿薩德作為敘利亞統治者的日子已經屈指可數。我們所有人的日子都是有數的，但阿薩德可能在奧巴馬離開白宮的最後一天仍然在統治敘利亞。
假釋只是另一種向公眾說謊的方式——在本例中，說謊的是定罪罪犯將要花在鐵窗後面的時間。緩刑是另一種安撫公眾的虛假懲罰形式。
英國著名歷史學家保羅·約翰遜在談到哈布斯堡帝國時說：「每一次改革都創造了比解決問題更多的問題。」這並不是哈布斯堡帝國的獨特現象。現代福利國家，尤其是我們自己的奧巴馬醫改，也可以說同樣的話。
因為我們許多人犯了可能導致惡果的錯誤，一些知識分子認為政府干預並為我們做出一些決定是政府的角色。他們沒有回答一個問題：政府從哪個星系聘請不會犯錯的生物？
巴拉克·奧巴馬花了這麼長時間才讓一些人看清他的真相，原因之一是人們不喜歡承認，即使是對自己，他們被一個口才流利的政客當做了愚蠢的人。