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The residents of Flint Michigan were subjected to high levels of lead in their water caused by bureaucratic ineptitude. It is ironic that the very people that were supposed to be regulating the water quality poisoned the people they were supposed to protect.  Someone on Facebook posted the message that "it is interesting that only black cities (New Orleans and now Flint) have been wiped out.  Other socialist activists have made similar claims that the poisoning of the residents of Flint was racially motivated.  No one has produced a shred of evidence that this is so.  These claims are therefore arbitrary and as Ayn Rand has said, they must be ignored.  The Governor of Michigan however has taken to attempting to refute the arbitrary and in so doing gives these claims intellectual credibility and psychological potency.  Further, the governor as an authority figure influences American culture and encourages others to make the same psycho/epistemological mista...

We have free will and therefore must choose; difficult decisions or not. You're welcome.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. You're welcome.

When I was a child me and my friends would play with toy guns.  We would play indoors, outdoors and all over the neighborhood.  We played "cowboys and indians", "cops and robbers" and army games.  My parents had no fear number one, that a neighbor would call the police on us and number two, that a police officer would pull up in a squad car and shoot me or my friends dead.  My mother and grandmother could call the police with no fear of being shot by a police officer simply because they opened the front door.  Traffic officers wear a bullet-proof vest, have a 9mm sidearm and an assault-weapon on the back of their motorcycles.  Police officers today have a shoot first ask questions later mentality.  The officers get this mentality (as well as their arsenal) from their unions.  The unions get their attitude from American counter-culutre:  The ends justify the means and might makes right.  The unions and American counter-culture are not onl...