Spoilt BratsMr Newton sighs, "ever known anyone so spoilt you would love to strangle? I lived with a Paris Hilton-a-like who complained about everything, stomped her feet and whinged till she got her way. There was a happy ending though: she had to drop out of uni due to becoming pregnant after a one night stand..."
Who's the spoiltest person you've met? Has karma come to bite them yet? Or did you in fact end up strangling them? Uncle B3ta (and the serious crimes squad) wants to know.
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chthonic, Thu 9 Oct 2008, 14:11)
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...About them in particular I care not a jot.
But I do not trust electoral democracy as a rule. A head of state who doesn't have to crawl to the half-baked bigotry of the quarter-educated British population seems like less of a bad thing than an elected one.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 14:10,
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It's a wonderful paradox, reallyBecause the best thing about democracy is that everybody is entitled to a vote.
The biggest problem with democracy is that everybody is entitled to a vote.
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Depends on your account of democracy.I kinda head along Rousseau's lines - treat the demos as an agent that's more than the sum of its parts. What's in the demos' interests needn't coincide with any individual's desires. That's just too bad for their desires.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 15 Oct 2008, 14:28,
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