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“A single tear shed at the remembrance of the Passion of Jesus is worth more than a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, or a year of fasting on bread and water.”
—St. Augustine
"Systems" are designed by people. People are imperfect. Therefore, any system designed by people will be imperfect. It then follows that something that is inherently imperfect, while useful, should never be imbued with unlimited power.
That is, IMO, the genius of the founding documents of the US. They realized government is essential, but the government will devolve to naked imposition of power if not constrained.
People on the right know that mankind will not/cannot be perfect, and prefer …
I don't know anyone who thinks mankind can be perfect. I've never heard anyone say that. Who do you have in mind. Can you point out these people who think mankind can be made perfect?
Please re-read my comment and reevaluate your need to ask that question. If you can, please think with a bit of subtlety.
I read this: "People on the left believe that while mankind cannot be perfect, behavior can be made to be "perfect" with sufficient assertion of power."
I don't know anyone who thinks that way. I'm on the left. I certainly don't think that way. I know plenty of people who would like to change other people's minds through persuasion. Of course, that's what Evangelicals are all about, right? Changing people's hearts and minds? I think what you mean is that we on the left would like to convince peo…
You have it mostly correct. But, in fact, the left believes you can force people to perfect their behavior (your twisted obsession with "white privilege" is just one example), with perfect defined solely by the left and subject to change at a moments notice. Tyranny always begins with "social pressure". When people lose their job for asking a question, or disagreeing: when mobs use the threat of violence (urged on by leaders of the Democrat party) to achieve their ends: when people get harassed for simply not taking a stand that leftists want them to take: that is "force". The left is clearly, quickly, and undebate-ably taking the US down the road to tyranny. In short, the guiding philosophy of the left is now "might makes right". Keep this in mind - moral superiority is fleeting; they will eventually come for you, too.