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Marc Smith's avatar

Marc, you invented a terrific metaphor and great examples. Wow.

Here are a few companion ideas I believe, and live by:

1. Eventually, reality, objectivity and truth win, and win big.

2. Social, racial, gender, and other Identity psychology are eventually impotent.

3. Pseudo self esteem eventually collapses.

4. Radical (consistent & total) truth telling (with heart) is the evolved policy, great for your reputation and your self esteem.

5. Unbreached morality is essential to ones healthy pride and happiness.

6. Respect for each person’s self ownership, and never initiating force, is the core of social and personal ethics.

Ron Richards

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Marc Smith's avatar

Anyway, I can’t argue with any of the points on your list.

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SEAN DONNELLY's avatar

Hi Marc. Great story that many people can relate to. Public servants (and this includes all police forces) need to be reminded on a weekly basis that they work for the public, not the other way around. In fact the only reason they even have a job in the first place is because of taxpayers who have been force fed the narrative that all of these people are needed, when in fact most of them are not.

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Marc Smith's avatar

Well Richard I’ve applied this strategy when went in person and I asked difficult questions of the municipal clerks. They cave to my every demand. I don’t pay annual business license fees, nor traffic bylaw tickets, and they took down the pedo pride flag.

The mayors and council can create any bylaw and issue any order but what if there’s no clerked/police/admin to carry them out? These are the Achilles heel of the system and they don’t want me anywhere near them.

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