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ded_maxim ([personal profile] ded_maxim) wrote2009-03-20 02:16 pm

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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

[identity profile] wsobchak.livejournal.com 2009-03-22 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Well, like the military, this is one of the few economic areas where private enterprise is not sufficient, for many reasons-for instance, in any kind of built-up area, once a fire gets going, you can't just pick and choose buildings to fight it at based on who paid up. To label it "socialist" as a way of equating it with universal health care or welfare is disingenuous.