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Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, eyeball said:

You think the word listen means speak.

I know their arguments better than they do

it is they who don't listen to anyone but themselves

they think listen means agree with them

if you don't agree with them

then you aren't "listening"

but they project their not listening unto others

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Posted (edited)
1 minute ago, TreeBeard said:

Are seatbelt laws force?

yes

you clearly have no idea what force is

you think if you agree with the use of force, then it isn't force

that's not how it works

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Posted
3 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:

Do you wear a seatbelt?

Are you forcing him to be logical or mandating it?  

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A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.

Posted (edited)
7 minutes ago, TreeBeard said:

Do you wear a seatbelt?

yes

doesn't mean there should be a law mandating that I do

you can be in favor of something and not for it being mandatory

you can be against something and not in favor of it being banned

smart people understand this

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Yzermandius19 said:

yes

doesn't mean there should be a law mandating that I do

you can be in favor of something and not for it being mandatory

you can be against something and not in favor of it being banned

smart people understand this

What if your grandchild says they don't want to wear a seatbelt when you take them for a drive?

A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.

Posted (edited)
17 minutes ago, eyeball said:

What if your grandchild says they don't want to wear a seatbelt when you take them for a drive?

then no drive for them

grown adults aren't children though

they can make their own choices

so bad analogy

the government is not the parent

and the people are not the children

if that is how you view government

it's no wonder you support tyranny

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There’s a major qualitative difference between forcing people to get vaccinated and show the proof to enjoy basic freedoms and requiring people to wear a seatbelt on penalty of a fine or loss of points.  First off, vaccines don’t prevent you from getting Covid.  They mitigate and people have differences of informed opinion on their value based on a year of their existence.  Seatbelts existed a long time before they were made mandatory.  C’mon.  No sophistication in these arguments.  The situation today with what we know about Omicron and vaccines makes vaccine passports and our mandates and restrictions ridiculous.  Trudeau is simplistic.  Our government is weak.  Bunch of bandwagoners who can’t wait to mandate treatments and remove freedoms.  It’s so lame.  Canada sucks right now.  

Posted
1 hour ago, TreeBeard said:

Can you name a person who was forcibly injected against their will?  

All the non-vaccinated federal civil servants that wanted to keep their jobs?

"All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain

Partisanship is a disease of the intellect.

Posted (edited)
29 minutes ago, Yzermandius19 said:

then no drive for them

grown adults aren't children though

they can make their own choices

so bad analogy

the government is not the parent

and the people are not the children

I'm merely illustrating the difference between a mandate and force which of course is choice.  I'm under the mandate my daughter gives me to force me to make her kids wear seatbelts in the pickup or a life-jacket when we go out in the boat. Their mom is like the voter, I'm the government under her mandate and the children are like...stubborn little conservatives who protest against it all most of the time.

 

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if that is how you view government

it's no wonder you support tyranny

Only in my role as Master when I have a crew I'm allowed to torment. I can certainly see how there'd be no end of opportunities for a real psychopath in a real dictatorship.

Full disclosure; we only follow mom's orders on the highway but when we go rippin up and down a logging road I let the kids jump in the back of the pickup and howl FREEDOM!!!!

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A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, TreeBeard said:

Who says?

Do you think its not force if government says the unvaccinated truckers or vaccinated travellers are forced to quarantine when coming back into the country?  "Force" is ANY time you can't do whatever you want in society by law.

Any time the government forces you to do something or not do something, it's force.  Every single law in our society is "force", and they use fines or the threat of violence (arrest and jail) to ensure compliance.  That's how the law works.

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"All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain

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Posted
3 minutes ago, eyeball said:

I'm merely illustrating the difference between a mandate and force which of course is choice.

distinction without a difference

mandates are force

whether people choose to follow them or not is besides the point

Posted
On 2/2/2022 at 1:54 PM, QuebecOverCanada said:

Pierre Poilievre should be the next Prime Minister of Canada.

Will never happen, because he's a snake and people don't like him.

"All generalizations are false, including this one." - Mark Twain

Partisanship is a disease of the intellect.

Posted
2 minutes ago, Moonlight Graham said:

Do you think its not force if government says the unvaccinated truckers or vaccinated travellers are forced to quarantine when coming back into the country?  "Force" is ANY time you can't do whatever you want in society by law.

Any time the government forces you to do something or not do something, it's force.  Every single law in our society is "force", and they use fines or the threat of violence (arrest and jail) to ensure compliance.  That's how the law works.

nailed it

Posted (edited)
1 minute ago, Moonlight Graham said:

Will never happen, because he's a snake and people don't like him.

least worst option for the CPC is obvious

unelectable sure

but Canadians not liking him is a badge of honor

Bernier knows

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Posted
1 minute ago, Yzermandius19 said:

distinction without a difference

mandates are force

whether people choose to follow them or not is besides the point

Unless they can choose in which case that distinction is the difference.

A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.

Posted (edited)
19 minutes ago, Yzermandius19 said:

nailed it

No he didn't.  Laws spell out the requirement(s) to behave according to society's rules and fines or the threat of violence (arrest and jail) are consequences for choosing not to follow them. That's how the law works.

It's not a cop fastening your seat-belt and its pure sophistry to say mandate = force because it just ain't true.

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A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.

Posted (edited)
34 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Unless they can choose in which case that distinction is the difference.

I can point a gun at someone's head

tell them to do as I say or get shot

they can choose to do as I say

but this is still force

me giving them a choice doesn't make it not force

distinction without a difference

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Posted (edited)
24 minutes ago, eyeball said:

No he didn't.  Laws spell out the requirement(s) to behave according to society's rules and fines or the threat of violence (arrest and jail) are consequences for choosing not to follow them. That's how the law works.

It's not a cop fastening your seat-belt and its pure sophistry to say mandate = force because it just ain't true.

you don't know what force is

so your opinion on what is and isn't force

is not relevant

Moonlight Graham does know though

his opinion is relevant as a result

and he nailed it

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Posted
14 minutes ago, Yzermandius19 said:

you don't know what force is

so your opinion on what is and isn't force

is not relevant

Is Merriam-Webster relevant enough?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mandate

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/force

How come wind speeds are expressed as force 1 thru 10?  Why no hurricane mandate winds?  And how come a politician asks us for a mandate as opposed to simply submitting to our force?

A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.

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The only way to defeat Darth Vader is to use the Mandate! 

A government without public oversight is like a nuclear plant without lead shielding.

Posted (edited)
4 minutes ago, eyeball said:

Is Merriam-Webster relevant enough?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mandate

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/force

How come wind speeds are expressed as force 1 thru 10?  Why no hurricane mandate winds?  And how come a politician asks us for a mandate as opposed to simply submitting to our force?

your own definition doesn't agree with you

nowhere in the definition of mandate does it say it's not force

nowhere in the definition of force does it say a mandate isn't force

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