Maryland abolishes death penalty.

[shoju]

Thanks for the link. I'll definitely check it out.

I've just come to the conclusion that trying to have a conversation about "this" with FiT, is like trying to have a religious conversation with my father. Stubborn, and unable to look at anything from a viewpoint that would differentiate from their own.

Yea, you will check out the link, without first investigating the other side I'm sure, just so it is a confirmation of your own dogmatic views. And you call me stubborn. ROFL. I look at it from the viewpoint of others, I just don't agree with it. There is a difference.

Enjoy the kool-aid man.

I'm sorry.... do you think you fucking know me or something? Because you sure do make a lot of assumptions about me, and my ideas, and how I'm going to do, or read, or comprehend. How do you know that I haven't researched other standpoints? How do you know that I'll read it, automatically agree with it and use it as confirmation? How do you know that I wont read it, and think "Eh, he's sort of got a point." Or "Eh, No I don't think that's what I think".

The truth is, I've read a lot of the links you've posted, and even lurked around your revleft. Just because I don't come in here, and spew out pounds of rhetoric doesn't mean I'm uneducated about something.

It could just be, that I think that spouting and spewing rhetoric the way you do, makes you look like a blowhard, incapable of reason, because you are so steadfast in your beliefs, that the minute anyone publicly disagrees with you, it's a jump to insults, thinly veiled or otherwise, in an effort to take over the superior position in an argument. Yep. Totally reminds me of my fundamentalist christian pastor father.

Or it could be, that I don't give two shits about communism, or marxism, because through the course of my college career I studied politics, and sociology, and behavioral sciences, and agreed with the people I studied. Textbook marxism, and communism are great theories, but they only work when you are able to remove the primal / base instincts of humanity. Something, that in the course of your interactions with me on this forum, you haven't even been able to do. You immediately jump to put people on the defensive, by positioning yourself as the absolute authority. Anyone who could possibly prove to be your intellectual equal, yet on the opposite side of the argument, you immediately work to discredit. You've done it with me, with Kandrathe, with Jester, Hell, I'm sure you even squared off in the same manner with Kevin, but I'm too tired of reading your crap to go look. You are the textbook definition of why your beloved ideologies can't work. And the hilarious part of the whole thing, is that you can't even see it, because you have your nose so far up your own smug ass, that you think you're right, and that we are all some brainwashed idiots.

Here's a shocker. I went to college in the beginning as a Social Psychology Major.I decided 2 years in, that I couldn't imagine doing this for the rest of my life. Queue career change, and now I'm an E-commerce director. My degree in Web Based Programming and Design is serving me far better than what the social psych would have.