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Jim Dalling
Nov 30, 2023
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Ok, I need a little help here.

Though I know a couple of things about somethings or other, the customs and masks of politie society and what’s considered ‘common courtesy’ seem to escape me.

Well. I’ve had a conflict with someone who believes that I don’t understand ‘common courtesy’

Common courtesy?

Who decides what that is?

The terms sounds like some sort of collectivist flap trap created to assume status, sling shame and impose a will upon an indivdual’’s rights in the name of ‘the common good’.

Mao thought that the Cultural Revolution was for the Common Good, between four and twenty million people died.

Stalin thought he was working for the ‘common good’ when he murdered or sent tens of millions to concentration camps.

And the response of the Chinese Government to The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, killed between three hundred and ten thousand people in an couple of hours. Most realistic projections are around 2600 people.

In short, I’m very suspicious of the kind of ‘friendly strange…

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