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Whatever happened to personal responsibility?

Personal responsibility?  What’s that?  It’s always someone else’s fault.  Welcome to the age of narcissism.

You know, I’ve had extremely bad luck with the women I’ve chosen to date, and not one of those was met through a website intended for that purpose (a couple have been met through other online communities, though).  I think it’s ludicrous that the government should only move to protect online daters.  I demand that someone protect me. 

No one should be allowed to date without a dating license.  This license should warn potential dates about mental stability, criminal record, and credit rating at a bare minimum.  This would protect us from getting involved with potentially insane dates or those who’re likely to drag us into financial ruin.

(A brief note the humor impaired: The preceding was a joke.  I do not seriously hold any of these views.)

oh rob, surely you jest. personal responsibility??!  are you kidding! if we had that it would mean i couldn’t blame you. and i do. blame you, that is.

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The Senate is considering legislation that would require an Internet dating company serving Michigan residents to disclose on its Web site whether it has conducted criminal background checks on users, based solely on the names provided.

So, lemme see… Hmmmm.  If I ‘own’ the dating service, I post a general announcement on the first page saying, “XYZ Dating Service has NOT conducted criminal background checks on any of its users.  Caveat emptor and carpe diem.” and I’ve satisfied tha law.

Now that’s what I effective legislating!  Jeez, and y’all are paying these bozos?

Regards…

and i do. blame you, that is.

For what, those pants you’re wearing in your Gravatar?

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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yes. and for the Gravatar itself. you don’t expect me to blame myself, do you?

Well, maybe you could blame the old golfer guy you stole them from.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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see, now you’re just talking crazy talk....